02539cam a2200313 4500 233402826 TxAuBib 20150605120000.0 ||||||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 eBook] : The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History. Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2007. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4415kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Charlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of Afghan "freedom fighters" who continued, despite overwhelming odds, to fight the Soviet invaders. Wilson, who sat on the all-powerful House Appropriations Committee, managed to procure hundreds of millions of dollars to support the mujahideen. The arms were secretly procured and distributed with the help of an out-of-favor CIA operative, Gust Avrokotos, whose working-class Greek-American background made him an anomaly among the Ivy League world of American spies. Avrakotos handpicked a staff of CIA outcasts to run his operation and, with their help, continually stretched the Agency's rules to the breaking point. Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol, to secret chambers at Langley, to arms-dealers' conventions, to the Khyber Pass, this book 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. Nonfiction. Military. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-05 20:00:03. http://camellia.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=583c5418-b40e-43dc-b549-9edf64d096a1 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 (OverDrive Read)