Afghanistan: Travels with the Mujahideen - Softcover

Gall, Sandy; Thatcher, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0450500829 ISBN 13: 9780450500824

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division, 1989

Synopsis

An account of the author's trip to Afghanistan in 1986, during which he travelled extensively with the Mujahideen and monitored their hostilities towards the departing Russians. Sandy Gall is well-known as a newsreader, and received the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal for his work in Afghanistan, a country on which he is considered to be an expert. His journey provided him with an insight into the realities of a situation which is currently the focus of world attention. He also had an opportunity to study the country's geography, flora, fauna and people. Hence this book is more than just a study of the war.

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About the Author:

Sandy Gall was born in Penang, Malaya, went to school at Glenalmond in Scotland, and studied French and German at Aberdeen University. As a Reuter correspondent for ten years and then as an ITN 'trouble shooter' since 1963, he has travelled all over the world. He covered the Congo war for Reuters in 1960-63 and had one of his worst experiences in Uganda in 1972 when he was thrown into jail by Idi Amin's soldiers and forced to run across the jail compound with a sub-machine gun on his back. He survived to tell the story on ITN. He has also reported wars and revolutions in the Far East, the Middle East and Europe. He is now a regular News at Ten newscaster, but he still likes to go out on foreign assignments. He was in Saigon in 1975 when the city fell to the Communists, and returned in 1980 to Vietnam and Kampuchea. He visited Afghanistan, in August 1982, when he and a TV crew spent two months with the guerrillas in the Panjsher Valley during a heavy Russian offensive. His TV documentary: Afghanistan - Behind Russian Lines was widely acclaimed in Britain. He returned in 1984 and made another documentary: Afghanistan: Allah Against the Gunships; and again in 1986 to make his third film on the war: Afghanistan: Agony of a Nation. Sandy Gall was Rector of Aberdeen University for three years (1978-81) and is an honorary doctor (LLD) of that university. He lives in Penshurst, Kent, with his wife Eleanor and their four children, Fiona, Alexander, Carlotta and Michaela. For his work in Afghanistan, Sandy Gall was awarded the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal, 1987, by HRH the Prince of Wales, as Patron of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0450500829
• ISBN 13: 9780450500824
• Binding: Paperback