Quotes by : Vladislav Tamarov

I am asked if I think the war was a just war ... how can I answer? I was a boy born and raised in beautiful....

On August 10, 1984, my plane landed in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. There were no skyscrapers here.....

He was holding his right leg, but the blood soaked through his fingers and flowed over his hand onto....

When you live next to death ... you don't think about it anymore, you just try to encounter it as seldom....

In forty minutes, people will be shooting at these 19 year old boys. And they will shoot back, and they....

We stayed here for only a few hours. We rested and went on. But the camera snatched this fraction of....

When I was drafted into the army in April 1984, I was a nineteen-year-old boy. The club where they took....

The photos I took in Afghanistan are lying in front of me. I peer into the faces of those who were with....

There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from....

[On one of his comrades depicted in the book:]"Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19. But he didn't....