Memories of the Mekong
Robert Fisk, 1 October 1981
The Struggle for Afghanistan
by Nancy Newell and Richard Newell.
Cornell, 236 pp., £9, August 1981,0 8014 1389 3 Show More
by Nancy Newell and Richard Newell.
Cornell, 236 pp., £9, August 1981,
“... Sassoons, one wonders, to catalogue its journey down that profound dull tunnel? Nancy and Richard Newell’s book suggests that they do, quoting a poem by a Soviet paratrooper who was killed in Afghanistan more than a year ago, a young man who wrote to his lover about his own future death: He did not live beyond the hour before dawn He fell on ... ”