Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 by Rodric Braithwaite

Author:Rodric Braithwaite [Braithwaite, Rodric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: MARXTOR, History
Amazon: B004PLNK84
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2011-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

The road starts in the fertile plains of the north, and then winds its way up increasingly bleak mountains to Pul-i Khumri, which is about the halfway point. It then continues south until it passes through the Salang Tunnel, built by the Soviets in the 1960s about seventy-five miles north of Kabul to provide an all-weather route through the Hindu Kush. The tunnel is three miles long and when it was built it was, at eleven thousand feet above sea level, the highest tunnel in the world. Even today it is an intimidating place, narrow, unlined, ill-lit and ill-ventilated, just wide enough for two lorries to pass, with the raw rock seemingly pressing down upon your head. In the course of the war, the 40th Army moved 8 million tons of supplies through this tunnel.

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