Surprise, kill, vanish : the secret history of CIA paramilitary armies, operators, and assassins
Record details
- ISBN: 0316441414
- ISBN: 9780316441414
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Physical Description:
large print
xvi, 747 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm - Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY, Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 657-745) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | An office for ungentlemanly warfare -- Tertia Optio -- Surprise attack in Korea -- Special Forces -- Ruin and rule in Guatemala -- Kings, shahs, monarchs, and madmen -- The KGB's office of liquid affairs -- Green light -- The special group -- An assassination capability -- JFK, KIA -- The studies and observations group -- Kill or capture -- Green Berets -- Revenge -- Colonel Qaddafi's Libya -- Reagan's preemptive neutralization -- Parachute assassins, Saddam Hussein, and Osama bin Laden -- Operation love storm -- Carlos the jackal -- The engineer -- War in Afghanistan -- Poke the bear -- War in Iraq -- Imad Mugniyah -- The moral twilight zone -- Just war -- The hidden hand. |
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Subject: | Large type books Assassination Espionage Intelligence service United States History United States. Central Intelligence Agency History |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Cass County.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Cass County Library-Harrisonville | LP 327.127 JAC 2019 (Text) | 0002205840453 | Adult Large Print | Available | - |