title: Soviet Paratrooper vs Mujahideen Fighter: Afghanistan 197989 (Combat)
author:  David Campbell 
description: "I really, really loved this book, as an active duty infantry NCO I have deployed Afghanistan 3 times and believe it or not the ghosts of the once mighty soviet military still haunt and paint a sober image of what happened there from the old rusting tank, bmp and hind hulks littering the country sides and landscape, the minefields that still claim civilian and military lives, and the marked/unmarked graves of Soviet and Mujahedeen fighters." - <i>IPMS / USA</i>
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  Don Pendleton - 073 - Appointment In Kabul
  
    
  
  To the true victims of war the children.
  
    
  
  Incoming! One moment Mack Bolan was quietly leading a column of gaunt-faced,
  turbaned men across the folds and creases of rock-strewn, sloping terrain
  under a star-filled, moonless night sky. Then came the piercing whistle of a
  shrieking missile, rocketing in at them from the gloom. The Executioner and
  the unit of Afghan freedom fighters responded automatically in the heartbeat
  before the hit, and in that instant Bolan could discern the first sounds of
  approaching choppers thundering in from the periphery.
  
    
  
  Soviet Mi-24 Hind gunships! They would be armed with missiles and rockets. The
  explosion of the impacting missile thunderclapped with deafening intensity,
  and the force was enough to lift Bolan off his feet, then hurl him to the
  ground. Abrupt shrieks of the dying punctuated the roar amid the fiery heat of
  the blast, and flying shrapnel splattered victims. F