| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 275 pages) : map |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. First Steps, Long Journey Ahead -- 2. No Journey Goes as Planned -- On the Way at Last -- 3. Home is Home -- Nooristan Awaits -- 4. Eagles Soar Higher -- 5. Grandfather's Castle -- Kantiwa, Heart of Nooristan -- 6. King of the Passes -- Kantiwa Pass -- 7. Goodbye Nooristan -- Welcome Panjshir -- 8. King's Wrath, Tears in Herat, and a Royal Wedding -- 9. Crossing the Hindu Kush Range -- Wheel of the Sky -- 10. Poor Jeep, Poor Donkey, Poor Surgery -- 11. Little Saleha: Onward to the Commander -- 12. Commander Massoud -- 13. Battle Preparations -- 14. Celebration before the Battle -- 15. Battle of the Garrison -- 16. Onward to Badakhshan, Cradle of Old Culture -- 17. Afghan Steel Factory -- 18. Back on Rocky Track -- Village Justice -- 19. Exorcism, Sufis, and a Royal Hunt -- 20. Yellow Pass: A Lonely Climber -- 21. Back to Nooristan and Unacceptable Love -- 22. Back to Kantiwa -- 23. Killer Kunar River |
| Summary |
An account of the search for ever-elusive peace by a war-torn country and its people |
| Notes |
Includes index |
|
Unpublished original work written in Dari. Translated into English for current publication |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Khalili, Masood, 1950- -- Diaries
|
|
HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia.
|
|
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
|
| SUBJECT |
Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 -- Personal narratives, Afghan
|
| Subject |
Afghanistan
|
| Genre/Form |
Diaries
|
|
History
|
|
Personal narratives.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Khalīlī, Maḥmūd, translator.
|
| ISBN |
9789386062789 |
|
938606278X |
|
9789386062796 |
|
9386062798 |
|
