Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016
Autor Steve Collen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 feb 2019
'Spellbinding ... a magisterial account of the great tragedy of our age ... it is a classic'Evening Standard
'In the finest traditions of American investigative journalism'The Times
'Spectacular ... makes Bourne movies pale in comparison'Financial Times
From the Pulitzer Prize winning of the acclaimedGhost Wars, this is the full story of America's grim involvement in the affairs of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2016. In the wake of the terrible shock of 9/11, the C.I.A. scrambled to work out how to destroy Bin Laden and his associates. The C.I.A. had long familiarity with Afghanistan and had worked closely with the Taliban to defeat the Soviet Union there. A tangle of assumptions, old contacts, favours and animosities were now reactivated. Superficially the invasion was quick and efficient, but Bin Laden's successful escape, together with that of much of the Taliban leadership, and a catastrophic failure to define the limits of NATO's mission in a tough, impoverished country the size of Texas, created a quagmire which lasted many years.
At the heart of the problem lay 'Directorate S', a highly secretive arm of the Pakistan state which had its own views on the Taliban and Afghanistan's place in a wider competition for influence between Pakistan, India and China, and which assumed that the U.S.A. and its allies would soon be leaving.
Steve Coll's remarkable new book tells a powerful, bitter story of just how badly foreign policy decisions can go wrong and of many lives lost.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780718194499
ISBN-10: 0718194497
Pagini: 784
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0718194497
Pagini: 784
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Steve
Collis
dean
of
the
Graduate
School
of
Journalism
at
Columbia
University.
His
major
books
includePrivate
Empire,
The
Bin
Ladensand
the
Pulitzer
Prize-winningGhost
Wars.
He
is
a
staff
writer
onThe
New
Yorker.
Recenzii
Every
assertion
is
carefully
sourced
and
checked.
This
book
is
in
the
finest
traditions
of
American
investigative
journalism.
Coll
is
the
thinking
man's
Michael
Wolff.
A masterful and entertaining account ... the story is delivered with a literary prowess that has been absent in previous western accounts of America's longest running war
Spectacular ... Directorate S has a cast of characters that makes Bourne movies pale in comparison
Impressively detailed, stylishly crafted and authoritative... as gloomy as it is compelling
A masterful and entertaining account ... the story is delivered with a literary prowess that has been absent in previous western accounts of America's longest running war
Spectacular ... Directorate S has a cast of characters that makes Bourne movies pale in comparison
Impressively detailed, stylishly crafted and authoritative... as gloomy as it is compelling