The war in Afghanistan at the end of the 20th century became a harsh lesson for the great powers. The intervention, planned as a short-term operation, grew into a ten-year destructive bloody war in which there were no winners. The author describes the dramatic tragic events from the point of view of its direct participants, based on their interviews and published memories and documents. Feiffer compares the war in Afghanistan, waged by the Soviet Union, with the anti-terrorism operation of the United States and international forces, which continues to this day - the same problems, the same methods of solving them and the lack of confidence in its correctness. The lively narration, in form approaching the action genre, makes the book even more interesting.