Hot steel : from Soviet-era Afghanistan to post 9/11 : frontline encounters of the longest-serving foreign correspondent in Kabul /
Terence White.
- 312 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 20 cm
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.
0143020684 9780143020684
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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--Personal narratives, New Zealand.--Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 Afghanistan--History--1989-2001 Afghanistan--Politics and government--20th century.