Twilight War The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

Name: Twilight War The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
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ISBN: 9781594203411

ISBN-10: 1594203415

ISBN-13: 9781594203411

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Crist

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The dramatic secret history of our undeclared thirty-year conflict with Iran, revealing newsbreaking episodes of covert and deadly operations that brought the two nations to the brink of open warFor three decades, the United States and Iran have engaged in a secret war. It is a conflict that has never been acknowledged and a story that has never been told. This surreptitious war began with the Iranian revolution and simmers today inside Iraq and in the Persian Gulf. Fights rage in the shadows, between the CIA and its network of spies and Iran's intelligence agency. Battles are fought at sea with Iranians in small speedboats attacking Western oil tankers. This conflict has frustrated five…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 7/19/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 656
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English



Maps


Preface



"A Little King in Your Heart"



A New Grand Strategy



Barbed-Wire Bob



A Den of Spies



A Fig Leaf of Neutrality



Sharon's Grand Design



A Spectacular Action



The American Hamlet



Sleepy Hollow



Arms For the Ayatollah



A Ring on the American Finger



The Wake-Up Call



The Invisible Hand of God



A Window of Opportunity



The Night Stalkers



A Very Close Call



No Higher Honor



Good-Bye, Captain Nasty



The Terrible Climax



Goodwill Begets Goodwill



War or Peace



An Atrocity



An Axis of Evil



Defeat or Victory



The Freedom Agenda



A Quasi-War



An Extended Hand and a Closed Fist


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index