Caught in the crossfire

Ian Goodwin

Published by Futura , softcover , illustrated

Disguised as a guerrilla, her red hair dyed black and her pale skin tanned a weather-beaten brown, Jan Goodwin entered Afghanistan in defiance of a Soviet threat to kill the next foreign journalist found with the mujahideen. She travelled on foot, muleback and jeep, into the war zones with the Afghan resistance. For three months her strength and nerve were tested to the limit by gruelling marches across some of the toughest terrain known to man, sustained by a diet of stale nan bread and raw onions. Caught up in the largest
Soviet offensive of the war, the group became trapped by Russian
bombing attacks, hunted by helicopter gunships. Goodwin saw green valleys reduced to scorched earth; ........................