AMERICA'S GREAT GAME : the CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East / Hugh Wi...
AMERICA'S GREAT GAME : the CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East / Hugh Wi...
AMERICA'S GREAT GAME : the CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East / Hugh Wilford.
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New York : Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2013]
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G 2014/4763
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English
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xxiv, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Part 1: Pre-game, 1916-1947. Learning the game ; Beginning the quest ; OSS/Cairo ; Great Game redux ; Zion ; The guest no one invites again -- Part 2: Warm-up, 1947-1949. Game plan ; The right kind of leader? Syria, 1949 -- Part 3: Winning, 1949-1956. American friends of the Middle East ; In search...
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New York : Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2013]
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New York (State)
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[2013]
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"The Central Intelligence Agency's reputation in the Middle East today has been marred by waterboarding and drone strikes, yet in its earliest years the agency was actually the region's staunchest western ally. In America's Great Game, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford reveals how three colorful CIA operatives--Kermit and Archie Roosev...
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AMERICA'S GREAT GAME : the CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East / Hugh Wilford.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-325) and index.
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G 2014/4763
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74VKKjBNK8Jy
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046501965X (hardback)
9780465019656 (hardback)
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327.73056
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991021979259702626
