Before Taliban

David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan's history -- Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi, and Qazi Amin Waqad -- to explain how the promise of progress and prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became the present tragedy of discord, destruction, and despair. Each of the men Edwards profiles were engaged in the political struggles of the country's recent history. They hoped to see Afghanistan become a more just and democratic nation. But their visions for their country were radically different, and in the end, all three failed and were killed or exiled.

המשפט הראשון: Lowell Thomas needed another adventure.

שנה

2002

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of California Press

מהדורות

4

עמודים

376

ISBN

9780520228610

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata