Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
By paranominal
Published: November 8, 2009
Tagged with: Afghan Factions, Al Qaeda, Covert Operations, General Intelligence Department, ghost, History Of The Cia, Intelligence Agencies, Invisible Wars, Isi, Islamic Militancy, Kgb, Managing Editor, Product Description, Quarter Century, Saudi Arabia, Secret History, Seeds, September 11 Attacks, Soviet Invasion, Washington Post
This is a rather predictable book. It is rife with the basic anti-anticommunist canards with some Clintonian apologia added.
Considering it was written by a Washington Post editor and Pulitzer Prize winner its credibility is questionable. Why anyone would want to read it other than the liberal conspiracy theory club is unknown.
Then again maybe that is all who is reading it.
Rating: 1 / 5
The only way this book would score more than one star is if people buy it as a work of fiction. It is riddled with factual holes and just plain wrong information, I don’t know if this was by design to create an element of fiction, or just terrible research. Please avoid this turkey unless you’re into fictional analysis.
- I have 4 years of in-depth, on ground research in the area he describes. I didn’t need an iota of that experience to dismiss this hogwash, the factual inaccuracies are so profuse that most people from the region are able to dismiss this without any formal background in technical political analysis.
Rating: 1 / 5
i ordered this book about 2 weeks ago and have not yet received it. PlEASE EXPLAIN.
Rating: 1 / 5
haven’t finished reading it yet.
what struck me immediately though is numerous claims of soviet atrocities and human rights abuses against civilians without properly citing documentation as to the origin of these claims. this occurs within the initial 50 pages or so.
not that i’m a apologist for the former soviet union in any respect. the ‘evacuation executions’ of the red army during barbarossa are well documented, esp. in richard rhodes’ recent work: ‘ masters of death: the ss-einstatzgruppen and the invention of the holocaust.’
Rating: 3 / 5
This book is very long in reading. It does not follow any folw to be seen but jumps around. It is informative on a historical view however, to get to the few usfull items the reader has to read one mans musing.
Rating: 2 / 5