155 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "This harrowing account from the front lines of the Afghan civil war...gives an indelible human face to a conflict that few Americans have followed or understood...When this ancient land suddenly plunge d into civil war between a Soviet-backed Communist government and implacable Muslim rebels, Schultheis found himself drawn to telling this heartbreaking story. Throughout the 1980s, he reported on the war from the front lines, risking his life t i m e after time as he penetrated into the mountains of Afghanistan with the mujahedin insurgents...the outgunned and outnumbered mujahedin never considered giving up the fight. Ultimately, they exhausted the Soviet occupiers. Not without reas o n wa s Af ghanistan called 'the Soviets' Vietnam'..." Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling and light rubbing. NF/VG

AFGHANISTAN CIVIL WARS AFGHAN CIVIL WAR ROB SCHULTHEIS RUSSIA