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Sbornik vklyuchaet v sebya publitsisticheskie ocherki, posvyashchennye tragicheskim sobytiyam neob"yavlennoy voyny v Afganistane 1979-1989 gg., kak pravilo, maloizvestnym libo voobshche neizvestnym massovomu chitatelyu. V sostave Ogranichennogo kontingenta sovetskikh voysk v Afganistane proshli sluzhbu v obshchey slozhnosti 22 269 kazakhstantsev (urozhentsev Kazakhskoy SSR i prizvannykh v Vooruzhennye Sily na ee territorii). Podavlyayushchee bol'shinstvo iz nikh chestno i muzhestvenno vypolnyalo svoy voinskiy i grazhdanskiy dolg. Pri etom 924 kazakhstantsa pogiblo, 21 propal bez vesti, a bolee 1000 - ostalos' invalidami. Avtor-sostavitel', posle okonchaniya uchebnogo podrazdeleniya prosluzhivshiy v techenie polutora let v razlichnykh chastyakh Afganistana, popytalsya, po mere vozmozhnosti, otsledit' uchastie zemlyakov-kazakhstantsev v opisyvaemykh sobytiyakh afganskoy voyny.