03042cam a2200337 4500 524560152 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781555848095 1555848095 B008V43QWQ Amazon 583c5418-b40e-43dc-b549-9edf64d096a1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1267802 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Crile, George. Charlie Wilson's War [Libby]. Grove Atlantic, 2007. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2732kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. History. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>The bestselling true story of a Texas congressman's secret role in the Afghan defeat of Russian invaders is "a tour de force of reporting and writing" (Dan Rather).</b><br /> <br /> A <i>New York Times</i>, <i>Washington Post</i>, and <i>Los Angeles Times</i> bestseller.<br /> <br /> Charlie Wilson's penchant for cocktails and beauty-contest winners was well known, but in the early 1980s, the dilettante congressman quietly conducted one of the most successful covert operations in US history. Using his seat on the House Appropriations Committee, Wilson channeled hundreds of millions of dollars to support a ragged band of Afghan "freedom fighters" in their resistance against Soviet invaders.<br /> <br /> Weapons were secretly procured and distributed with the help of an outcast CIA operative named Gust Avrakotos, who stretched the agency's rules to the breaking point. Moving from the back rooms of Washington to secret chambers at Langley, and from arms-dealers' conventions to the Khyber Pass, Wilson and Avrakotos helped the mujahideen win an unlikely victory against the Russians.<br /> <br /> Adapted into a film starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, <i>Charlie Wilson's War</i> chronicles an overlooked chapter in the collapse of the Soviet Union—and the emergence of a brand-new foe in the form of radical Islam.<br /> <br /> "Put the Tom Clancy clones back on the shelf; this covert-ops chronicle is practically impossible to put down. No thriller writer would dare invent Wilson." —<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br /> <br /> "An engaging, well-written, newsworthy study of practical politics and its sometimes unlikely players, and one with plenty of implications." —<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/charlie-wilson-s-war?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/charlie-wilson-s-war?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/charlie-wilson-s-war?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)