Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times
By George Crile
Categories: History, Politics & Social Sciences
George Crile's account of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson and CIA officer Gust Avrakotos, who channeled covert U.S. aid to the Afghan mujahideen fighting the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
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