Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Significant Persons and Parties Preface 1. Introduction: Into Forbidden Afghanistan Part One: The Saur Revolution 2. Lives of the Party 3. The Armature of Khalqi Power Coda: The Death of a President Part Two: The Pech Uprising 4. A Son of Safi 5. Anatomy of a Tribal Uprising Coda: The Death of a Safi Daughter Part Three: The Islamic Jihad 6. The Muslim Youth 7. Fault Lines in the Afghan Jihad Coda: The Death of Majrooh Epilogue: Topakan and Taliban Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

About the Author

David B. Edwards is Professor of Anthropology at Williams College. He is the author of Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier (California, 1996).

Reviews

"Powerful explanation of how the promise of progress and prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became a tragedy of discord, destruction and despair."--Banner