Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Ghost Wars

The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

By
Steve Coll
Steve Coll
2004 • 725 pages

Ratings18

Average rating4.3

15

List

504 books

History

zackmoe
Zack D
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Down to the Sea in Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men
Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past

List

55 books

History

Nowenen
Alexander
Columbine
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Time Reborn
The Trouble with Physics

List

56 books

Middle East

TheGoofyGoblin
John
Oil and the political economy in the Middle East: Post-2014 adjustment policies of the Arab Gulf and beyond
Under Siege: P.L.O. Decisionmaking During the 1982 War
Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation
Except for Palestine
The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory

List

1,023 books

History

starthistle1
Steven Rongley
Medieval Medicine
The Conquering Tide
Grant
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Deutschland einig Vaterland

List

5 books

Terrorism

Renee
Renee
Prisoner
Going Dark
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Black Wave
The Muslim Brotherhood and the West: A History of Enmity and Engagement

List

761 books

Own Kindle Unread

zackmoe
Zack D
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Day of Infamy
Gold of Our Fathers
The Ten Thousand Doors of January

List

862 books

Own Kindle

zackmoe
Zack D
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Day of Infamy
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Fleet of Knives
Gold of Our Fathers
The Ten Thousand Doors of January

List

208 books

At Lau Lib

AliIsmail
Ali Ismail
Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991
Waging modern war
Duty
Masters of War
The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century

List

280 books

War

zackmoe
Zack D
Big Friend, Little Friend: Memoirs of a World War II Fighter Pilot
Day of Infamy

List

100 books

Non Fiction: History

Tphill
Tphill
Unbroken
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
America Discovers Columbus: How an Italian Explorer Became an American Hero
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom

List

28 books

Buddy Read Candidates

Eleonora
Eleonora
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
West with the Night
A Little Life
How the Word Is Passed
The Age of Innocence
The Years
Dreadnought

List

92 books

Own Unread

Swendo
Cam
The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
Black Liberation and Socialism
The Brother You Choose
The Portable Machiavelli
The Politics of Friendship

List

50 books

Nonf History

LucilleAncrath
Lucille Ancrath
Sex with Kings
The History of White People
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Dancing Bears

List

5 books

Place Middle East

LucilleAncrath
Lucille Ancrath
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Directorate S
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

List

36 books

Politics

Nowenen
Alexander
No Logo
From Dictatorship to Democracy
Letters to a Young Contrarian
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Fatal Invention

List

26 books

Intelligence

TheGoofyGoblin
John
Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the Twenty-First Century
Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy

List

359 books

Nonfiction

Nowenen
Alexander
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Обезьяны, нейроны и душа
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
The Year of Living Biblically
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The Grand Design
No Logo

List

50 books

History

AliIsmail
Ali Ismail
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
In Search of the Dark Ages
Ancient Egypt
In Search of the Trojan War
Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History

List

130 books

Non Fiction

AliIsmail
Ali Ismail
Incognito
Guns, Germs and Steel
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Blink
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

List

50 books

Non Fiction To Read

Rupam_Shyamal
Rupam Shyamal
We were soldiers once ... and young
Guests of the Ayatollah
Killing Pablo
Black Hawk down
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak

List

110 books

Owned

Brig_Berthold
Brig Berthold
The Art of War
Leadership 101
The Richest Man in Babylon
The Diaries of Adam and Eve
A Dance with Dragons
The Screwtape Letters
A Storm of Swords

List

213 books

Non Fiction

Brig_Berthold
Brig Berthold
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
The Boy Scout Handbook
PREACH MY GOSPEL, A GUIDE TO MISSIONARY SERVICE
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

List

47 books

2014

Brig_Berthold
Brig Berthold
A Clash of Kings
Into the Wild
A Storm of Swords
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception
Call for the Dead
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

List

511 books

Non Fiction

zween_eugene
Eugene Wilder
Where Men Win Glory
Eiger Dreams
Eating Animals
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Way We Eat
The Rest Is Noise

List

52 books

Read 2021

bparkey
Brent Parkey
The Honourable Schoolboy
Alright, Alright, Alright
Smiley's People
The Executioner's Song
The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Pillar of Fire
Guests of the Ayatollah
Next