Breeding Ground
Tripathi, Deepak Beginning with the Communist Saur Revolution of 1978 and continuing through Gen. Stanley McChrystal's 2009 appointment as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, this book is an inside account of one of the most vicious conflicts fought between the two Cold War superpowers: the Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979-89). Analyzing the behind-the-scenes decisions made in Moscow, Washington, and Kabul, former BBC correspondent Deepak Tripathi shows ho...