Download Afghan Napoleon by Sandy Gall PDF

2021
Title Afghan Napoleon by Sandy Gall
Authors
Genres Biography: Historical Political & Military Asian History Books Military History
Publisher Haus Publishing
ISBN 9781913368227
The first biography in a decade of Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate. Many groups were caught up in fighting each other and competing for Western arms. The exception were those commanded by Ahmad Shah Massoud, the military strategist and political operator who solidified the resistance and undermined the Russian occupation, leading resistance members to a series of defensive victories. Sandy Gall followed Massoud during Soviet incursions and reported on the war in Afghanistan, and he draws on this first-hand experience in his biography of this charismatic guerrilla commander. Afghan Napoleon includes excerpts from the surviving volumes of Massoud’s prolific diaries—many translated into English for the first time—which detail crucial moments in his personal life and during his time in the resistance. Born into a liberalizing Afghanistan in the 1960s, Massoud ardently opposed communism, and he rose to prominence by coordinating the defense of the Panjsher Valley against Soviet offensives. Despite being under-equipped and outnumbered, he orchestrated a series of victories over the Russians. Massoud’s assassination in 2001, just two days before the attack on the Twin Towers, is believed to have been ordered by Osama bin Laden. Despite the ultimate frustration of Massoud’s attempts to build political consensus, he is recognized today as a national hero.
More Books You May Like
The Vanishing Sky
The Vanishing Sky
L. Annette Binder

For readers of Warlight and The Invisible Bridge, an intimate, harrowing story about a family of German citizens during ...

Shadows Reel (Joe Pickett #22)
Shadows Reel (Joe Pickett #22)
C. J. Box

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett and his wife, Marybeth, make separate discoveries that put the Pickett family in a pair ...

The Good Left Undone
The Good Left Undone
Adriana Trigiani

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[An] immersive saga. . . . A celebration of family and a paean to the power of stor...

The Miracle of Mindfulness
The Miracle of Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh

One of the best available introductions to the wisdom and beauty of meditation practice. --New Age JournalIn this beauti...