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The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan
de West, Bing
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1400068738
- ISBN 13
- 9781400068739
- Librería
-
Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New Yoik: Random House, 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition to complete number line. Hard cover in very good condition with beige boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight with no writing, no markings noted. Exterior bottom text block has a red remainder dot. Contains a section of 8 leaves / 16 pages of color photographs. Concludes with an extensive section of Acknowledgments, several Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, and an extensive Indes.Dust jacket very good with barely a ghost of shelf & edge wear. * From the jacket flap, ""America cannot afford to lose the war in Afghanistan, and yet Americans cannot win it. In this definitive account of the conflict, acclaimed war correspondent and bestselling author Bing West provides a practical way out. Drawing on his expertise as both a combat-hardened Marine and a former assistant secretary of defense, West has written a tour de force narrative that shows the consequences when strategic theory meets tactical reality. . . ""
Sinopsis
Bing West ’s bestselling books have won the Veterans of Foreign Wars News Media Award, the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for nonfiction, the Andrew J. Goodpaster Prize for military scholarship, the Colby Award for military nonfiction, and the Marine Corps University Foundation’s Major General John H. Russell Leadership Award. West, a Marine combat infantryman, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former assistant secretary of defense.
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- Librería
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- M001408
- Título
- The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan
- Autor
- West, Bing
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1400068738
- ISBN 13
- 9781400068739
- Editorial
- Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New Yoik
- Fecha de publicación
- 2011
- Palabras clave
- History, Middle East - History, Afghan War - 2001-2021, United States - Armed Forces - Afhganstan
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History; History of the Middle East;
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Sobre el vendedor
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
Sobre Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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