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2005., Random House of Canada Call No: Bio P348p Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The star of the film "Kandahar" recalls her childhood and the friendship that sustained her when the Russians invaded Kabul, imprisoning her father and turning the country into a battleground. A story of a land occupied and the resilience of its people.
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-- Combat de Charlie Wilson(2008)., Adult, Universal Studios Call No: DVD Fic CharlieW Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support needed to defeat the Soviet Union. Ultimately, Charlie learns that while military victory can be obtained, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow. Based on a true story.
![Charlie Wilson's war [DVD] (2008). Directed by Mike Nichols.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Charlie Wilson's war [DVD] (2008). Directed by Mike Nichols.")
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c2009., Harper Call No: 958.1045 F297g Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for the 21st century. Parallels between the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are impossible to ignore. The Soviet Union sent some of its most elite troops to unfamiliar lands to fight a vaguely defined enemy, which eventually defeated their superior numbers with unconventional tactics. Although the Soviet leadership initially saw the invasion as a victory, many Russian soldiers came to view the war as a demoralizing and devastating defeat, the consequences of which had a substantial impact on the Soviet Union and its collapse. NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer examines the conflict from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground. His extensive research includes eye-opening interviews with participants from both sides of the conflict, vividly depicting the invasion of a volatile country that no power has ever successfully conquered.--From publisher description.
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-- Ken Follett unabridged CD collection.2008., Brilliance Audio Call No: CD Fic Fol Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lie down with lions: An American man, a French physician, and a English woman are terrorized by the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
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2011., Harvard University Press Call No: 958.104 K14l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The conflict in Afghanistan looms large in the collective consciousness of Americans. What has the United States achieved, and how will it withdraw without sacrificing those gains? The Soviet Union confronted these same questions in the 1980s, and Artemy Kalinovskyœs history of the USSRœs nine-year struggle to extricate itself from Afghanistan and bring its troops home provides a sobering perspective on exit options in the region.What makes Kalinovskyœs intense account both timely and important is its focus not on motives for initiating the conflict but on the factors that prevented the Soviet leadership from ending a demoralizing war. Why did the USSR linger for so long, given that key elites recognized the blunder of the mission shortly after the initial deployment?Newly available archival material, supplemented by interviews with major actors, allows Kalinovsky to reconstruct the fierce debates among Soviet diplomats, KGB officials, the Red Army, and top Politburo figures. The fear that withdrawal would diminish the USSRœs status as leader of the Third World is palpable in these disagreements, as are the competing interests of Afghan factions and the Soviet Unionœs superpower rival in the West. This book challenges many widely held views about the actual costs of the conflict to the Soviet leadership, and its findings illuminate the Cold War context of a military engagement that went very wrong, for much too long.
![The sweetest embrace [DVD] (2008). Directed by Najeeb Mirza. : return to Afghanistan.](/Library/images/~imageCT69518.JPG "The sweetest embrace [DVD] (2008). Directed by Najeeb Mirza. : return to Afghanistan.")