Gregory Feifer,The Great Gamble Reviews

“The Great Gamble ”

Written on: 06/01/2010 by Harriet Klausner (18660 reviews written)

The Great Gamble
Gregory Feifer
Harper, Jan 2010, $15.99
ISBN: 9780061143199

Anyone who has followed the historians' perspective on the Bush-Obama war in Afghanistan knows the mountainous country has been considered a graveyard for outsiders. Before the Americans, the Soviets became engulfed in a nine-year war there that many say was a much greater factor to the collapse of the Soviet Union than Reagan's build-up; as it exposed the weaknesses of the rag-tag nature of the Red Army. Using... (read more)