Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Record 15 of 31
Previous Record Next Record
Print Material
Author Coll, Steve.

Title Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 / Steve Coll.

Imprint New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2005.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  958.1045 C683g 2005    ---  Available
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  958.1045 C683g 2005 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Description xvii, 712 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Note "Updated with new documents from the 9/11 Commission"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [667]-679) and index.
Contents Accounts receivable September 1996 -- Blood brothers: November 1979 to February 1989: We're going to die here; Lenin taught us; Go raise hell; I loved Osama; Don't make it our war; Who is this Massoud?; Terrorists will own the world; Inshallah, you will know my plans; We won -- One-eyed man was king: March 1989 to December 1997: Serious risks; Rogue elephant; We are in danger; Friend of your enemy; Maintain a prudent distance; New generation; Slowly, slowly sucked into it; Dangling the carrot; We couldn't indict him; We're keeping these Stingers; Does America need the CIA? -- The distant enemy: January 1998 to September 10, 2001: You are to capture him alive; Kingdom's interests; We are at war; Let's just blow the thing up; Manson family; That unit disappeared; You crazy white guys; Is there any policy?; Daring me to kill them; What face will Omar show to God?; Many Americans are going to die; What an unlucky country.
Subject Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.
Afghanistan -- History -- 1989-2001.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011
ISBN 0143034669 (pbk.)
9780143034667 (pbk.)
0141020806 (pbk.)
9780141020808 (pbk.)
Standard No. IG# 0143034669
YDXCP 2146605

 
    
Available items only