Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan

Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan
ISBN-10
1408831201
ISBN-13
9781408831205
Series
Little America
Category
History
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
A&C Black
Author
Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Description

The author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City (winner of the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize) now gives us the startling, behind-the-scenes story of the struggle between President Obama and the US military to remake Afghanistan.

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