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The Great Gamble The Soviet War in Afganistan
by Feifer, Gregory
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0061143189
- ISBN 13
- 9780061143182
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper Collins, 2009 New York: Harper Collins, 2009 326 pp with one map During the last years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union sent some of its most elite troops to unfamiliar lands in Central Asia to fight a vaguely defined enemy, which eventually defeated their superior numbers with unconventional tactics.Although the Soviet leadership initially saw saw the invasion as a victory, many Russian soldiers came toview the war as a demoralizing, and devestating defeat, the consequences of which had a substantial impact on the Soviet union and its collapse. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, would be "as new but for a remainder mark on bottom page edges. DJ is "as new.". Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/As New.. Stated First Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/As New.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001236
- Title
- The Great Gamble The Soviet War in Afganistan
- Author
- Feifer, Gregory
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0061143189
- ISBN 13
- 9780061143182
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Bookseller catalogs
- Afganistan, Hunza, Central Asia;
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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