Shooting at the Moon The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos

Name: Shooting at the Moon The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos
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ISBN: 9781883642365

ISBN-10: 1883642361

ISBN-13: 9781883642365

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Authors: Roger Warner

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THE CIA IN ITS GLORY DAYS and the mad confidence that led to disaster in Vietnam are the subjects of Roger Warner's prizewinning history, Shooting at the Moon: The CIA's War in Laos (first published as Back Fire, Simon & Schuster, 1995). 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 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 tell in Shooting at the Moon, awarded the Cornelius Ryan Award for 1995's Best Book on…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Publication date: 6/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 436
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English