Ghost Wars
The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden
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3.9 • 11 Ratings
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- £9.99
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Publisher Description
The news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeada's evolution.
Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified government files and interviewed senior US officials and foreign spymasters. Here he gives the full inside story of the CIA's covert funding of an Islamic jihad against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, explores how this sowed the seeds of bn Laden's rise, traces how he built his global network and brings to life the dramatic battles within the US government over national security. Above all, he lays bare American intelligence's continual failure to grasp the rising threat of terrrorism in the years leading to 9/11 - and its devastating consequences.
Customer Reviews
Great book - shame about the shocking Penguin ePub conversion
This comment is really to warn people that the version of the book I downloaded from iBookstore in December 2011 is littered with typographical errors.
There are literally multiple spelling mistakes on every page - I'm talking about the kinds of typos that the most basic spellcheck would pick up.
The typos are so egregious as to significantly distract the reader from the content of the book. I've requested a refund via Apple support.
Given the nature of the mistakes it seems clear that Penguin have OCR'd a hard copy version of the book (I.e. they have scanned in each physical page and had a computer attempt to recognise the letters via Optical Character Recognition). Quite incredible that in this day and age someone thought that was a good idea rather than getting hold of the original InDesign file - or whatever format they use.
Steve Coll's brilliant and painstaking researched book deserves a good deal more care than it has received in this electronic conversion.
Typos galore
Good book but full of typos!! How can this be possible?