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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Clean solid book, shows light handling wear to the covers.”
- Type
- Chronicle
- Era
- 1980s
- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- Historical
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- ISBN
- 9780802141248
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0802141242
ISBN-13
9780802141248
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30214108
Product Key Features
Book Title
Charlie Wilson's War : The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Asia / Central Asia, Intelligence & Espionage, International Relations / Arms Control, Military / General, Military / United States, United States / General, Media Tie-In
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Fiction, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
27.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-019074
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
327.12730581
Synopsis
Charlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of Afghan "freedom fighters" who continued, despite overwhelming odds, to fight the Soviet invaders. Wilson, who sat on the all-powerful House Appropriations Committee, managed to procure hundreds of millions of dollars to support the mujahideen. The arms were secretly procured and distributed with the help of an out-of-favor CIA operative, Gust Avrokotos, whose working-class Greek-American background made him an anomaly among the Ivy League world of American spies. Avrakotos handpicked a staff of CIA outcasts to run his operation and, with their help, continually stretched the Agency's rules to the breaking point. Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol, to secret chambers at Langley, to arms-dealers' conventions, to the Khyber Pass, this book presents an astonishing chapter of our recent past, and the key to understanding what helped trigger the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union and ultimately led to the emergence of a brand-new foe in the form of radical Islam.
LC Classification Number
DS371.2.C75 2002
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