12171 Western Islands, Publishers Belmont, Massachusetts USA 1987 Trade Paperback Good White pictorial printer wrapper. Volume has stain at the rear cover mid front edge. Now in clear cover. From the foreword: "The USSR has occupied Afghanistan for seven-and-one- half years. The brutality of that occupation and the level of suffering and devastation that it has brought upon the Afghan people and their land is so enormous as to be mind-numbing." Abdul Shams is the former Economic advisor to the President of Afghanistan. When the Soviet Union invaded his country in December of 1979, Shams was arrested and by the Soviets, accused of being a CIA spy, and sentenced to death. Incarcerated for five months , he was saved just moments before his scheduled execution in a daring rescue operation by Afghan Freedom Fighters, the mujahideen." $15.00USD
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