Ghost Wars
By Steve Coll
By Steve Coll
By Steve Coll
By Steve Coll
By Steve Coll
Read by Malcolm Hillgartner
By Steve Coll
Read by Malcolm Hillgartner
Category: Domestic Politics | Middle Eastern World History
Category: Domestic Politics | Middle Eastern World History
Category: Domestic Politics | Middle Eastern World History | Audiobooks
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$23.00
Dec 28, 2004 | ISBN 9780143034667
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Dec 28, 2004 | ISBN 9781101221433
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Oct 27, 2011 | ISBN 9781101548981
1609 Minutes
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Praise
“Certainly the finest historical narrative so far on the origins of al Qaeda in the post-Soviet rubble of Afghanistan . . . Ghost Wars provides fresh details and helps explain the motivations behind many crucial decisions.” —The New York Times Book Review
“The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events . . . Deeply satisfying.” —The New York Review of Books
“A well written, authoritative, high-altitude drama with few heroes, many villains, bags of cash, and a tragic ending—one that may not have been inevitable.” —The Washington Post
Awards
Lionel Gelber Prize WINNER
New York Times Notable Book WINNER
Pulitzer Prize (Non-Fiction) WINNER
Table Of Contents
List of Maps
Principal Characters
Prologue: Accounts Receivable – September 1996
Part One: 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. “Inshallah, You Will Know My Plans”
9. “We Won”
Part Two: The One-Eyed Man Was King – March 1989 to December 1997
10. “Serious Risks”
11. “A Rogue Elephant”
12. “We Are in Danger”
13. “A Friend of Your Enemy”
14. “Maintain a Prudent Distance”
15. “A New Generation”
16. “Slowly, Slowly Sucked into It”
17. “Dangling the Carrot”
18. “We Couldn’t Indict Him”
19. “We’re Keeping These Stingers”
20. “Does America Need the CIA?”
Part Three: The Distant Enemy – January 1998 to September 10, 2001
21. “You Are to Capture Him Alive”
22. “The Kingdom’s Interests”
23. “We Are at War”
24. “Let’s Just Blow the Thing Up”
25. “The Manson Family”
26. “That Unit Disappeared”
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”
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
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