Afghanistan 
Subtitle: Mullah, Marx and Mujahid (Nations of the Modern World. Middle East)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780813337982
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Islam and politics; Communism; History - General History; History: World; Afghanistan; Asia - General
First sentence: Visiting Kabul, the Afghan capital, in 1929, the French journalist Andree Viollis, one of the few Westerners in the city, was struck by the devastation wreaked upon the palace of the overthrown monarch, Amanullah, by revolutionary forces.