Research Catalog

Title

Holy war, unholy victory : eyewitness to the CIA's secret war in Afghanistan / Kurt Lohbeck ; foreword by Dan Rather.

Author

Lohbeck, Kurt.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Regnery Gateway, ©1993.

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Details

Description

xiv, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

Describes the Soviet-Afghan War from the eyes of the Afghans who fought it.

Subjects

• Afghanistan
• Since 1979
• Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan > (Afghanistan : > 1979-1989)
• History
• United States > Central Intelligence Agency
• USA > Central Intelligence Agency
• Afghanistan > History > Soviet occupation, 1979-1989
• Afghanistan > History > 1989-
• Afghanistan-Konflikt > 1979-1989

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Weaving a tangled web -- In the eyes of the beholders -- Past is prologue -- Lack of vigilance -- Infiltration -- Reaction -- Peace through strength -- East is east -- Citizen soilders -- Sweet revenge -- David vs. Goliath -- Helping hands: overt and covert -- Messengers confusing the message -- Half Kipling's India, half Bogart's Casablanca -- Lord save us from our friends -- Spies, lies, and videotapes -- Street gangs and armies -- Wars and rumors of wars -- Into the jaws of the enemy -- We deceive ourselves -- Extremely intolerant -- Goliath begins to fall -- Money is the root of all evil -- Chaos and confusion -- The messengers kill each other -- Brothers in blood -- Retreat from Jalalabad -- The war on drugs -- Whodunit -- History begins to repeat itself -- Goliath goes down.

ISBN

• 0895264994
• 9780895264992

LCCN

93024344

OCLC

• ocm28292912
• 28292912
• SCSB-14426471

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library