Absolutely fascinating and thorough. A bit too thorough perhaps. Every detail is recorded and the source list in the bibliography is massive. Well-done, but a bit windy. A more concise version would have earned 5 stars from me.
This is probably the definitive work on the history of US involvement in the Afghanistan war against the Soviets and the resulting blowback.Coll begins with the Islamabad riot of 1979, in which thousands of Islamic militants laid waste to the US embassy while Zia was riding about on a bicycle distri...
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