Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 / Steve Coll.
Record details
- ISBN: 1594200076
- ISBN: 9781594200076
- Physical Description: xvii, 695 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2004.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-664) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Principal Characters xiv -- Prologue: Accounts Receivable, September 1996 1 -- Part 1 Blood Brothers, November 1979 to February 1989 19 -- 1. "We're Going to Die Here" 21 -- 2. "Lenin Taught Us" 38 -- 3. "Go Raise Hell" 53 -- 4. "I Loved Osama" 71 -- 5. "Don't Make It Our War" 89 -- 6. "Who Is This Massoud?" 107 -- 7. "The Terrorists Will Own the World" 125 -- 8. "Inshallah, You Will Know My Plans" 147 -- 9. "We Won" 170 -- Part 2 One-Eyed Man Was King, March 1989 to December 1997 187 -- 10. "Serious Risks" 189 -- 11. "A Rogue Elephant" 205 -- 12. "We Are in Danger" 225 -- 13. "A Friend of Your Enemy" 240 -- 14. "Maintain a Prudent Distance" 257 -- 15. "A New Generation" 266 -- 16. "Slowly, Slowly Sucked into It" 280 -- 17. "Dangling the Carrot" 301 -- 18. "We Couldn't Indict Him" 314 -- 19. "We're Keeping These Stingers" 336 -- 20. "Does America Need the CIA?" 353 -- Part 3 Distant Enemy, January 1998 to September 10, 2001 369 -- 21. "You Are to Capture Him Alive" 371 -- 22. "The Kingdom's Interests" 397 -- 23. "We Are at War" 416 -- 24. "Let's Just Blow the Thing Up" 437 -- 25. "The Manson Family" 451 -- 26. "That Unit Disappeared" 470 -- 27. "You Crazy White Guys" 487 -- 28. "Is There Any Policy?" 504 -- 29. "Daring Me to Kill Them" 520 -- 30. "What Face Will Omar Show to God?" 538 -- 31. "Many Americans Are Going to Die" 553 -- 32. "What an Unlucky Country" 567. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 11.8 52 101907. |
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Subject: | Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011. United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Afghanistan > History > Soviet occupation, 1979-1989. Afghanistan > History > 1989-2001. |
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