Hot steel : from Soviet-era Afghanistan to post 9/11 : frontline encounters of the longest-serving foreign correspondent in Kabul / Terence White.
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TextPublisher: Auckland, N.Z. ; New York : Penguin Books, 2006Description: 312 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0143020684
- 9780143020684
- White, Terence, 1950-
- War correspondents -- Afghanistan -- Biography
- Journalists -- New Zealand -- Biography
- Afghan War, 2001- -- Personal narratives, New Zealand
- Afghanistan -- History -- 2001-
- Afghanistan -- Description and travel
- Afghanistan -- Social life and customs
- Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 -- Personal narratives, New Zealand
- Afghanistan -- History -- 1989-2001
- Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- 958.1046 22
- DS371.2 .W47 2006
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 958.1046 WHI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A323243B |
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LC copy signed by the author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312).
Clandestinely visiting Afghanistan during the bloody Soviet occupation, the author befriended the famous mujahideen leader Ahmad Shah Masood. He survived the Afghan jihad only to be seriously wounded by mortar shrapnel during factional fighting for Kabul.
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