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Rent Charlie Wilson's War Abridged
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Narrator: Christopher Lane
Format: Abridged-CD, Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: Aug 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - General
Retail Price: $29.95
Discs: 10
Synopsis
This investigative report on the secret CIA operations during the 1980s Russia-Afghanistan war tells of the billion-dollar-a-year effort to arm, supply, and train the Afghan resistance, and to maintain relations in the region--all centered on an American Congressman, Charlie Wilson from Texas. This true story reads like a thriller as Crile describes the larger-than-life Wilson, who was head of the House Appropriations Committee, and the many CIA operatives, ex-CIA operatives, gun runners, and freedom fighters who were involved in carrying out the operation. The story has added significance because these same weapons later fell into the hands of the Taliban and were used against us. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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