Jacqueline Fitzgibbon is Lecturer in History and Politics at University College Cork.
Well written and rigorously researched ... Provides mature and penetrating analysis [that] deserves a place in the modern library of Afghanistan. * History Ireland * 40 years after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Jacqueline Fitzgibbon demonstrates how the US response did not resolve conflict but added to it --- highlighting the folly today of the question, 'Do we get to win this time?' * Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, University of Birmingham, UK *