Charlie Wilson's War
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Grove Atlantic, 2007.
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English
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9781555848095

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George Crile., & George Crile|AUTHOR. (2007). Charlie Wilson's War . Grove Atlantic.

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George Crile and George Crile|AUTHOR. 2007. Charlie Wilson's War. Grove Atlantic.

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George Crile and George Crile|AUTHOR. Charlie Wilson's War Grove Atlantic, 2007.

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George Crile, and George Crile|AUTHOR. Charlie Wilson's War Grove Atlantic, 2007.

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    [synopsis] => 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.
 
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.
 
Adapted into a film starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War 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.
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