Allah’s Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya
Allah’s Mountains: the Battle for Chechnya
Writer: Sebastian Smith
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2006
ISBN 1850439796, 9781850439790
288 pages
A mixture of travelogue, history and war journalism, Allah’s Mountains tells the story of the conflict between this nation of mountain tribes and the might of the Russian army. It is also a story of the history, people and cultures of the Caucasus and of tiny ethnic groups struggling for both physical and cultural survival.
very good book ,about the last war and the history of chechnya,the writer has long time in chechnya during the last war and understood the chechen excelently.