First As Tragedy Then As Farce: How the Soviet and American Invasions of Afghanistan Are Comparable
Elisabeth Leake in Conversation with Andrew Keen
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In this episode, Andrew is joined by Elisabeth Leake, author of Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan.
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Elisabeth Leake is Associate Professor of International History at the University of Leeds. She is the author of The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936-65.
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