First published in 1983, this is a first-hand account of the Afghan resistance during the Soviet Occupation of the 1980s, written by the journalist John Fullerton who spent two and a half years based in Peshawar covering the growing resistance movement for the Far Eastern Economic Review and The Daily Telegraph. He witnessed bloody encounters with Soviet troops and gunships as he accompanied guerrillas several times into Afghanistan. His is a moving account of their struggle and a penetrating study of Soviet intentions, Kabul's internecine politics and the implications for the rest of the world.