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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. 273pp, col ills. Or red cloth in jacket. Some minor foxing to endpapers and preliminaries. Jacket slightly faded on spine with foxing to reverse. Account of a journey from Pakistan across Soviet occupied Afghanistan to Herat in the summer of 1987-the height of the war with the Russian occupation forces. Disguised as an Afghan and accompanied by a mujahedin, travelling by foot, on horseback and in the back of lorries he crept through enemy line, was attacked by Soviet gunships, and witnessed communist onslaughts of Afghan villages. Evocative of the country and the people.