Victor Weeps Afghanistan - Sheikh, Fazal
Afghanistan
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Poor Afghanistan. A historical crossroads far away from the world's centers of power, the country has alternately been conquered, fought over by one superpower after another, and ignored. In the 1920s, Afghanistan's rulers embarked on a sweeping program of modernization that, among other things, allowed for at least some measure of civil rights for women. A half century later, after the politically moderate king Nadir Shah was overthrown, a Marxist government drew Afghanistan into the Soviet sphere, provoking a civil war that widened with the Soviet invasion of the country in 1979. More than a million Afghanis died; millions of others fled the country to neighboring Iran and Pakistan. The civil war widened further after the exhausted Soviet forces left in 1989. Three years later, the Mujahedin resistance seized power and executed the Marxist dictator Mohammed Najibullah. The civil war continued, fueled by the rise of the conservative Taliban, a confederation of armed students that, at century's end, controls ...
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1998Uitgever: Scalo Verlag Ag Scalo Books & Looks244 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 3931141950ISBN-13: 9783931141950Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original boards, dust jacket, richly illustrated with b/w photographs, 4to. [Auteur: Sheikh, Fazal] [Pagina's: 248] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Zurich/New York : Scalo Verlag] [Jaar: 1998] [Titel: The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan]
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Original boards, dust jacket, richly illustrated with b/w photographs, 4to. [Auteur: Sheikh, Fazal] [Pagina's: 248] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Zurich/New York : Scalo Verlag] [Jaar: 1998] [Titel: The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan]
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Scalo: Zürich/Berlin/NY, 1998. Bound with dustwrapper, 244 pp. B-w photos and images, map, texts by photographer. Signed by the author. Very light traces of use on dustwrapper. 28,5x23,5x3 cm. Very good condition. [Parcel service]. [Categorie: Photography] [Auteur: Sheikh, Fazal.] [Pagina's: 244] [Jaar: 1998] [Titel: The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan.]
