Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos
de Roger Warner
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- ISBN 10
- 1883642361
- ISBN 13
- 9781883642365
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press, 1996. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition (stated). Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Slight reading wear to lower corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 436 pages. For a few years in the early 1960s the CIA seemed to be running a perfect covert war in Laos - quiet, inexpensive, just enough arms to help Meo (Hmong) tribesmen defend their home territory from the communist Pathet Lao. Then the big American war next door in Vietnam spilled across the border. How the perfect covert war ballooned into sorrow and disaster is the story Roger Warner tells in Shooting at the Moon, awarded the Cornelius Ryan Award for 1995's Best Book on Foreign Affairs by the Overseas Press Club. Warner describes his characters with a novelist's touch - soldiers and diplomats busy with war-making; CIA field officers from bareknuckle warriors to the quiet men pulling strings in the shadows; and above all the Meo as they realized they had been led down the garden path. This is a book about war, about secrecy, and its illusions, about the cruel sacrifice of small countries for the convenience of large ones. Nothing better has been written about the CIA in the years when it thought a handful of Americans in sunglasses could do anything with planeloads of arms and money to burn.
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- Librería
- Books of the World (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- RWARE0000003196
- Título
- Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos
- Autor
- Roger Warner
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Paperback Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 1883642361
- ISBN 13
- 9781883642365
- Editorial
- Steerforth Press
- Lugar de publicación
- South Royalton, Vermont
- Fecha de publicación
- 1996
- Páginas
- 436
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Palabras clave
- history, covert action, espionage, government, military, military history, politics, CIA, Back Fire, Vietnam War, covert war, secret war, Hmong, Meo, Southeast Asia, Lao, Laos
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Laos; Politics & Government; History; Military and Defense; Intelligence & Espionage; Asia; Vietnam and the Vietnam War;
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