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OUT OF AFGHANISTAN: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE SOVIET WITHDRAWAL

OUT OF AFGHANISTAN: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE SOVIET WITHDRAWAL Hardcover - 1995

by Diego Cordovez, Selig S. Harrison

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New York: Oxford University Press. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0195062949 . Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Ink mark on FEP. Damp stain on spine heel and bottom front and rear panel. Light foxing on top text block edge. ; 472 pages .
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  • Title OUT OF AFGHANISTAN: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE SOVIET WITHDRAWAL
  • Author Diego Cordovez, Selig S. Harrison
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; First Printing
  • Pages 472
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, New York
  • Date 1995
  • Features Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 313118
  • ISBN 9780195062946 / 0195062949
  • Weight 1.74 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.58 x 6.42 x 1.49 in (24.33 x 16.31 x 3.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Afghanistan - History - Soviet occupation,, United Nations - Afghanistan
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94022301
  • Dewey Decimal Code 958.104

From the rear cover

Cordovez and Harrison provide the definitive account of the Soviet blunders that led up to the invasion and the bitter struggles over the withdrawal that raged in the Soviet and Afghan Communist parties and the Reagan Administration. The authors are particularly well-suited to their task: Cordovez was the United Nations mediator who negotiated the Soviet pullout, and Harrison is a leading South Asia expert with four decades of experience in covering Afghanistan. Their story of the U.N. negotiations is interwoven with a gripping chronicle of the war years, complete with palace shootouts in Kabul, turf warfare between rival Soviet intelligence agencies, and the C.I.A. role in building up Islamic fundamentalist guerrilla leaders at the expense of Afghan moderates. Cordovez opens up his diaries to take us behind the scenes in his negotiations, and Harrison draws on interviews with Mikhail Gorbachev, former Secretary of State George Shultz, and other key actors. The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan was one of the pivotal events of recent history. Out of Afghanistan destroys many of the myths surrounding the Afghan war and will have a profound impact on the emerging debate over how and why the Cold War ended.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 05/15/1995, Page 83
  • New York Times, 08/11/1996, Page 21
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/01/1995, Page 48

About the author

Undersecretary-General for Special Political Affairs of the United Nations from 1981 to 1988, Diego Cordovez was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating the Geneva Accords. Selig S. Harrison, a former Washington Post foreign correspondent and the author of five books about Asia, is a Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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