Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to...
Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to...
Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 / Steve Coll.
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New York : Penguin Press, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N958.1045/26
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xvii, 695 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
Prologue: Accounts Receivable: September 1996 -- Pt. 1. Blood Brothers: November 1979 to February 1989 -- 1. We're Going to Die Here -- 2. Lenin Taught Us -- 3. Go Raise Hell -- 4. I Loved Osama -- 5. Don't Make It Our War -- 6. Who Is This Massoud? -- 7. The Terrorists Will Own the World -- 8. Insh...
27. You Crazy White Guys -- 28. Is There Any Policy? -- 29. Daring Me to Kill Them -- 30. What Face Will Omar Show to God? -- 31. Many Americans Are Going to Die -- 32. What an Unlucky Country.
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New York : Penguin Press, 2004.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2004.
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"Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll tells the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, including its covert program against Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989, and examines the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of bin Laden, and the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents to capture or...
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Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 / Steve Coll.
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Includes index.
Bibliography, p. [653]-664.
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N958.1045/26
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1594200076
9781594200076 (alk. paper)
1594200076 (alk. paper)
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1594200076 :
9781594200076
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958.1045
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