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Whispers of war : An Afghan freedom fighter's account of the Soviet invasion / Masood Khalili ; translated by Mahmud Khalili.

By: Language: English Original language: Persian Publisher: New Delhi, India : SAGE Publications India, 2017Description: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789386062772 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 958.1045 KHA 23
LOC classification:
  • DS371.2 .K477 2017
Contents:
Table of Contents Foreword by Gary C. Schroen Note from the Translator Introduction First Steps, Long Journey Ahead No Journey Goes as Planned—On the Way at Last Home Is Home—Nooristan Awaits Eagles Soar Higher Grandfather’s Castle—Kantiwa, Heart of Nooristan King of the Passes—Kantiwa Pass Goodbye Nooristan—Welcome Panjshir A King’s Wrath, Tears in Herat, and a Royal Wedding Crossing the Hindu Kush Range—Wheel of the Sky Poor Jeep, Poor Donkey, Poor Surgery Little Saleha: Onward to the Commander Commander Massoud Battle Preparations Celebration before the Battle Battle of the Garrison Onward to Badakhshan, Cradle of Old Culture Afghan Steel Factory Back on Rocky Track—Village Justice Exorcism, Sufis, and a Royal Hunt Yellow Pass: A Lonely Climber Back to Nooristan and Unacceptable Love Back to Kantiwa The Killer Kunar River Epilogue Index
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Includes index.

Table of Contents
Foreword by Gary C. Schroen
Note from the Translator
Introduction
First Steps, Long Journey Ahead
No Journey Goes as Planned—On the Way at Last
Home Is Home—Nooristan Awaits
Eagles Soar Higher
Grandfather’s Castle—Kantiwa, Heart of Nooristan
King of the Passes—Kantiwa Pass
Goodbye Nooristan—Welcome Panjshir
A King’s Wrath, Tears in Herat, and a Royal Wedding
Crossing the Hindu Kush Range—Wheel of the Sky
Poor Jeep, Poor Donkey, Poor Surgery
Little Saleha: Onward to the Commander
Commander Massoud
Battle Preparations
Celebration before the Battle
Battle of the Garrison
Onward to Badakhshan, Cradle of Old Culture
Afghan Steel Factory
Back on Rocky Track—Village Justice
Exorcism, Sufis, and a Royal Hunt
Yellow Pass: A Lonely Climber
Back to Nooristan and Unacceptable Love
Back to Kantiwa
The Killer Kunar River
Epilogue
Index

Unpublished original work written in Dari. Translated into English for current publication.