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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden - Steve Coll
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B002RI9JKU
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 732
Edition language: English
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4.0 Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Absolutely fascinating and thorough. A bit too thorough perhaps. Every detail is recorded and the source list in the bibliography is massive. Well-done, but a bit windy. A more concise version would have earned 5 stars from me.
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This is probably the definitive work on the history of US involvement in the Afghanistan war against the Soviets and the resulting blowback.Coll begins with the Islamabad riot of 1979, in which thousands of Islamic militants laid waste to the US embassy while Zia was riding about on a bicycle distri...
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