Kara Kush - Idries Shah
Category: Political
Tags: Political, Historical Fiction
In December of 1979, Soviet tanks rolled across the borders of Afghanistan, beginning a period of barbaric aggression that triggered a turning point in modern history. Idries Shahs brilliant novel chronicles the courageous 10-year resistance of the Afghan people, an epic story of triumph over tyranny that deserves to be immortalized., Kara Kush is the definitive story of freedom fighters. It is a story of patriotism in action, mobilized and fueled not by a mass-media propaganda machine or the charisma of a single individual, but by a thousands-of-years-old tradition of proud independence, deep love of ones land, and fierce will to survive., Kara Kush was first published in 1986, at a time when most of the outside world dismissed the Afghan resistance as a ragtag lot of rival guerrilla factions in a futile holdout against an invincible military machine. With extraordinary insight into human nature and the course of human history, Kara Kush told the real story., According to Shah, almost
