Thirty years ago the Soviet Union tried to impose its government in Afghanisatn and failed.
One million Afghans died, and by the time Soviet forces withdrew in 1989, Mosocw had lost nearly 14 and a half thousand soldiers.
A former Soviet conscript who served in Afghanistan from 1982 to 1984 talks of his experineces and memories in his own words.
The US president has honoured America’s veterans, on the same day that he met with his national security team to discuss whether to send mroe troops to the war in Afghanistan.
Jonathan Bartlett is one of the soliders Obama was honouring on Veterans Day. Bartlett wanted to go to Afghanistan after the September 11th attacks.
Instead he was sent to Iraq – and two months later lost both of his legs in a bomb attack on his army truck. In his own words, Bartlett talks about the moment that changed his life, his views on war and his thoughts about the US president who sent him into battle.
Thousands of volunteers from nations around the world signed up to help the Spanish Republican cause in the civil war and fight Franco. They were known as the International Brigades. Sam Lesser was one of the first British volunteers to sign up. Here’s his story in his own wodrs.