The Secret War for China: Espionage, Revolution and the Rise of Mao

by Panagiotis Dimitrakis

Book Overview

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist-Leninist government, and the subsequent nine-year conflict with the indigenous Afghan Mujahedeen was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Cold War. Key details of the circumstances surrounding the invasion and its ultimate conclusion only months before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have long remained unclear; it is a confidential narrative of clandestine correspondence,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0755601106
• ISBN13: 9780755601103
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"