Charlie Wilson's war : the extraordinary story of how the wildest man in Congress and a rogue CIA agent changed the history of our times : Crile, George, author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

x, 550 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm

Describes how, after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson persuaded his colleagues to fund the CIA's efforts to arm the mujahideen and recounts the repercussions of that covert operation

Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-531) and index