Ghost Wars by Steve Coll

Ghost Wars by Steve Coll

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction * A New York Times bestseller

"The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events . . . Deeply satisfying." --The New York Review of Books

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Directorate S and The Achilles Trap comes the explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan.

To what extent did America's best intelligence analysts grasp the rising thread of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail? Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll recounts the history of the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks. Based on scrupulous research and firsthand accounts by key government, intelligence, and military personnel both foreign and American, Ghost Wars details the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan (including its covert operations against Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989), the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of bin Laden, and the failed efforts by U.S. forces to find and assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan.

Steve Coll, a Pulitzer Prize winner for explanatory journalism in 1990, has been managing editor of the Washington Post since 1998. From 1989 to 1992, he was the Post's South Asia bureau chief, covering Afghanistan. Coll is the author of four books, including The Take of Getty Oil and On the Grand Trunk Road.

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ISBN 13	9780143034667
ISBN 10	0143034669
Title	Ghost Wars
Author	Steve Coll
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2004-12-28
Number of pages	736
Prizes	Winner of Lionel Gelber Prize., Winner of New York Times Notable Book., Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Non-Fiction).
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