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Title: The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost by Russia (Federation) Generalnyi Shtab, Lester W. Grau, Michael A. Gress, Russian General Staff, Theodore C. Mataxis ISBN: 0-7006-1186-X Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Talk about wooden prose!
Comment: Soviet General Staff studies are generally interesting, but difficult to read. They're intended for Soviet officers, and intend to convey lessons that can be used in future conflicts. I've read a couple that deal with World War II, and if they'd been carved into trees they couldn't have been more wooden. This book suffers from that: lifeless technical prose with no attempt to keep the reader's attention. What the book contains, though, is a wealth of information and knowledge of how the war in Afghanistan was fought, from the weapons and tactics that were used to the method by which Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan received their mail.
This is at times very interesting. There's a great deal about tactics and weaponry, and much about the technical aspects of soldiering, everything from aviation to engineering to supply and construction. Though there's a lot of information in the book, it's not sorted chronologically: there's no central narrative history of events. Instead, there's a brief prologue telling of the beginning of the war, and an even briefer epilogue recounting the Soviet withdrawal. I'm still waiting for a narrative of the war that's reasonably accessible, with detail and a reasonable narrative that I can follow, so that I have a better background into what's going on there now.
Rating: 5
Summary: A sometimes boring book but VERY informative and useful
Comment: Let me first start off that this is not a quick easy read. It goes into VERY small detail about practically everything in the Soviet-Afghan War. However, some of the small things that the author goes over gets very boring very quick. When you read this book, it almost feels like a battle manual for the Soviet-Afghan War. However, when you get done reading the book, its probably the closest one person can come to understanding the war without actually being there. The drawings in the book are also very useful to help spell out what the author is saying. All in all, the book does not give an action/adventure story of the war, but when you comprehend it, you will have a firm understanding of what the war was like from an operational point of view
Rating: 3
Summary: very informative,but very cold
Comment: This book is a must to read from informational point of view.If you need to find information on tactics, uniforms, weapons,etc-this is the one.But,this not the one,if you want to understand what this war was about.About real soldiers,who actually had to fight in Afghanistan:18-20 years old kids,who was drafted. And without any choice was thrown to a forien contry to play a strange game of survival : the one , who kill first, will win another chance to play this game again...and again.All we wanted was simple- just to go home ... alive.I was lucky to see my home.But many of my friends didn,t.
If you want to reed that kind of story,you need to find another book!
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Title: Afghan Guerrilla Warfare: In the Words of the Mujahideen Fighters by Ali Ahmad Jalali, Lester W. Grau, John E. Rhodes ISBN: 0760313229 Publisher: MBI Publishing Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story by Vladislav Tamarov ISBN: 1580084168 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan by Artem Borovik, Artyom Borovik ISBN: 080213775X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 10 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Afghanistan The Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower by Mark Adkin, Mohammed Yousaf, Mohammad Bear Trap Yousaf ISBN: 0971170924 Publisher: Casemate Pub. Date: 06 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan by Lester W. Grau ISBN: 0788146653 Publisher: DIANE Publishing Co Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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