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 Every Rock, Every Hill: the Plain Tale of the North-West Frontier
and Afghanistan
Buchan and Enright 1984, Century Hutchinson 1987
‘Very
carefully researched and well written.’ M.M. Kaye
Excerpt:
To all appearances, the Frontier in the late seventies was retreating
back into its romantic history. Nothing much of international interest
was going on there, and it was thought of less for its present-day importance
than for the stories of the past. Whatever friction there was seemed
to be essentially a local affair between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Whether
or not the border dispute had been resovled mattered little to diplomats
and politicans, whose attention was fully occupied by the Middle East
and oil, economic recession in the industrial countries and poverty in
the Third World. However, instability in Iran revealed the first chink
in the otherwise satisfactory crescent of comfort established between
Western spheres of influence and those of the Soviet Union.
[Chapter 9, The Fight goes on, p. 277].
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