WAR AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD : The Struggle for Afganistan, Kashmir and Tibet

New York, NY: Routledge, 2001. First American Edition, 1st Printing . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & Collectible.. A critical analysis of two decades of strife in the regions of Afganistan, Kashmir, Pakistand and Tibet --- an area, beyond strife in the Balkans and the seething Middle East, that journalist Eric Margolis (1947 -) says, "presents such a toixic stew of boiling religious, ethnic, political, strategic, and historical animosities, made all the more volatitle by endemic poverty, illiteracy and the sheer agony of daily existence." India and Pakistan with nuclear capabilties and constantly at odds led to a 1993 CiA conclusion that the Jammu/Kashmire region to be the "most likely place for a nuclear war to begin". A decade later, Iran adds fuel to the mix. Exposition in 19 chapters and 4 parts" Part I, The Great Jihad; II, Kashmire - War in Paradise; III, War in the Death Zone; and IV, The Roof of the World.