Charlie Wilson's War
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Charlie Wilson's War
| Full title | Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History |
|---|---|
| Author | George Crile |
| Published | 2003 |
| Pages | 550 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | One Texas congressman on an appropriations subcommittee escalating the CIA’s Afghan programme from a few million dollars to the largest covert operation ever run — reported by a 60 Minutes producer who was there. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named in the replies to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025.
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- History · Power · Institutions — where this sits in the corpus.
What links here
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