Death of a Translator

Death of a Translator
ISBN-10
1911350358
ISBN-13
9781911350354
Category
Afghanistan
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2019-09-08
Publisher
Arcadia Books
Author
Ed Gorman

Description

A young, devil-may-care Englishman, determined to report on the Soviet war and make a name for himself, makes a fateful commitment to a swashbuckling Afghan guerrilla commander. Not only will he go inside the capital secretly and live in the network of safe houses run by the resistance, he will travel around the city in a Soviet Army jeep, dressed as a Russian officer. Waiting in the mountain camp, from where Niazuldin's band of fighters lived and planned their hit-and-run attacks on Soviet troops, Ed Gorman discovers what it means to experience combat with men whose only interest is to be killed or martyred.

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