Steve Coll

Broschiertes Buch

Ghost Wars

The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invas ion to September 10, 2001

Beschreibung

To what extent did America's best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop Bin Laden and why did they fail? Comprehensively and for the first time - Steve Coll recaounts the history of the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks.

Autor

Steve Coll is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Ghost Wars and a professor and dean emeritus 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 nine books, including On the Grand Trunk Road, The Bin Ladens, Private Empire, Directorate S, and The Achilles Trap.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin US
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 141mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9780143034667
• ISBN-10: 0143034669
• Artikelnr.: 13730494