Xuất bản phẩm

• The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, Basic Books, 1999, ISBN 0-465-00310-9
• Kurt Lohbeck, introduction by Dan Rather, Holy War, Unholy Victory: Eyewitness to the CIA's Secret War in Afghanistan, Regnery Publishing (November, 1993), hardcover, ISBN 0-89526-499-4
• Stephane Courtois, Le livre noir du Communisme, hardcover, ISBN 0-674-07608-7
• George Crile, Charlie Wilson's War: the extraordinary story of the largest covert operation in history, Atlantic Monthly Press 2003, ISBN 0-87113-851-4
• Robert D. Kaplan, Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ISBN 1-4000-3025-0
• Lester W. Grau, The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Super Power Fought and Lost, ISBN 0-7006-1186-X
• John Prados, Presidents' Secret Wars, ISBN 1-56663-108-4
• Kakar, M. Hassan, Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. (free online access courtesy of UCP)
• Borovik, Artyom, The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan, ISBN 0-8021-3775-X

Truyền thông và Văn hóa đại chúng

• Cuộc chiến tranh Xô viết tại Afghanistan trong văn hóa đại chúng
• Con Quái vật (phim)