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Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll tells the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, from its covert programme against Soviet troops from 1979-89, to the rise of the Taliban and the emergence of bin Laden, to the secret efforts vy CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill bin Laden in Afghanistan after 1998. Based on extensive firsthand accounts, Ghost Wars is the inside story that goes well beyond anything previously published on US involvement in Afghanistan.
Steve Coll is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and from 2007 to 2013 was president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington, D.C. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and previously worked for twenty years at The Washington Post, where he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1990. He is the author of seven other books, including On the Grand Trunk Road, The Bin Ladens, Private Empire, and Directorate S.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594200076 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594200076 |
| Title | Ghost Wars |
| Author | Steve Coll |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2004-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 656 |
| Prizes | Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 2005 |
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