Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the Cia, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Contributor(s): Coll, Steve (Author)

ISBN: 9780143034667

Publisher: Penguin Books

Binding Types:

Paperback

$24.00

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$36.95 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$35.75 (100+ copies: $35.00)

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$24.00

Pub Date: December 28, 2004

Dewey: 958.1045

LCCN: 2004275974

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 1.53" H x 8.12" L x 5.46" W ( 1.43 lbs) 736 pages

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Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000101907 ( Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the Cia, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Pulitzer Prize Winner))

Reading level: 11.80

Interest level: UG

Point value: 52.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: From the managing editor of "The Washington Post" comes this news-breaking account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda.

Review Quotes: "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

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