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The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times
Grove Press
November 2007
On Sale: November 6, 2007
560 pages ISBN: 0802143415 EAN: 9780802143419 Trade Size (reprint)
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A gripping and vibrant book soon to be released as a major
motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts and
directed by Mike Nichols, Charlie Wilson’s War was a New
York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times
best seller when it was published in 2003. Crile’s book
is the true story of how a Texas Congressman and a rogue
CIA agent conspired to launch the biggest, meanest, and
most successful CIA campaign ever — the operation to fund
the mujahideen in their fight against the Soviet army that
had invaded Afghanistan. Moving from the back rooms of the
Capitol to secret chambers at Langley, from arms dealers’
conventions to the Khyber Pass, Charlie Wilson’s War
presents an astonishing chapter of our recent past, and the
key to understanding what helped trigger the sudden
collapse of the Soviet Union and ultimately led to the
emergence of a brand-new foe in the form of radical Islam.
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