A better man
"It's January 1991. The Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse; bankrupt, in part, due to funding a decade-long war in Afghanistan. Vladimir Verstakov, a twenty-three year-old construction worker drafted into war, took pat in a routine supply mission when rebel Mujahideen fighters attacked his convoy along Afghanistan's rugged Salang Pass. Vladimir emerges the sole survivor... A Better Man is one soldier's journey to quell the demons of war."--...