The book offers a clear, authoritative and readable guide to the modern history of Afghanistan. This remote land made up of many tribes and ethnic peoples on the borders of Central Asia became a focus of Superpower rivalry and international intrigue after the Soviet invasion in 1979. This book shows how Afghanistan's traditional society has been profoundly shaken up in a cruelly destructive war, causing the world's biggest refugee problem and a chronic instability which threatens the wider region.
- ISBN13 9780333492901
- Publish Date 10 March 1992
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition 3rd ed. 1992
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 298
- Language English