We Won

Author : Bruce Riedel
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815725855

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What We Won by Bruce Riedel Pdf

In February 1989, the CIA's chief in Islamabad famously cabled headquarters a simple message: "We Won." It was an understated coda to the most successful covert intelligence operation in American history. In What We Won, CIA and National Security Council veteran Bruce Riedel tells the story of America's secret war in Afghanistan and the defeat of the Soviet 40th Red Army in the war that proved to be the final battle of the cold war. He seeks to answer one simple question—why did this intelligence operation succeed so brilliantly? Riedel has the vantage point few others can offer: He was ensconced in the CIA's Operations Center when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on Christmas Eve 1979. The invasion took the intelligence community by surprise. But the response, initiated by Jimmy Carter and accelerated by Ronald Reagan, was a masterful intelligence enterprise. Many books have been written about intelligence failures—from Pearl Harbor to 9/11. Much less has been written about how and why intelligence operations succeed. The answer is complex. It involves both the weaknesses and mistakes of America's enemies, as well as good judgment and strengths of the United States. Riedel introduces and explores the complex personalities pitted in the war—the Afghan communists, the Russians, the Afghan mujahedin, the Saudis, and the Pakistanis. And then there are the Americans—in this war, no Americans fought on the battlefield. The CIA did not send officers into Afghanistan to fight or even to train. In 1989, victory for the American side of the cold war seemed complete. Now we can see that a new era was also beginning in the Afghan war in the 1980s, the era of the global jihad. This book examines the lessons we can learn from this intelligence operation for the future and makes some observations on what came next in Afghanistan—and what is likely yet to come.

Author : Norman Dabell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780572581

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How We Won the Ryder Cup by Norman Dabell Pdf

The Ryder Cup battle between Europe and the USA is one of the biggest events in the golfing calendar and in 2006, the former underdogs showed they are now the dominant force in the biennial matches. It was another marvellous example of teamwork, and the caddies have played no small part in Europe overcoming the odds. The players hit the shots; their trusty caddies share the hopes, the glory and, occasionally, the misery. What was it like being beside Sam Torrance when he holed the winning putt and shed his tears on that historic moment at The Belfry in 1985? Fast forward to 2006 and a highly emotional appearance by Darren Clarke. What was it like being by his side? What was the story behind Colin Montgomerie's right-hand-man returning to his bag to help lay to rest the ghost of 1999? How do you cope when Seve Ballesteros is in full cry against the 'old enemy', especially when you are an American yourself? In 1991, a spike mark cost Europe the tournament, but what really happened behind the ropes? Who knew his man had had a vision he would beat Tiger Woods in 1997 - and saw it come true? What was it like witnessing those awful scenes at Brookline up close and personal in 1999? Who knew exactly which line to take when Paul McGinley sank his memorable winning putt in 2002? How We Won the Ryder Cup covers all the drama that has unfolded in the competition over the years and includes the action from the 2006 tournament at The K Club, County Kildare in Ireland, which saw Europe storm to a third successive victory.

Author : Daniel Norrish
Publisher : Daniel Norrish
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781521254776

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The Bodies We Won't Bury: Love is Dangerous 1 by Daniel Norrish Pdf

When your lover texts you, how do you know it's really them tapping on the phone's keypad? How can you be sure it's your trusted partner asking you to dinner, or the movies, or into someone else's home? Caller ID means nothing and a text message is only a handful of anonymous words while he's watching his next victims. He's stealing mobile phones and using the devices to lure innocent partners into violent public snares around the tourist haunts of Sydney. Detective Inspector Stephanie Saxon is getting closer to finding him, and even the press can see that she'll be the one to break down his door. The stalker Saxon is desperately chasing knows where she lives, and whom she's sleeping with, and where he can find her family, but he does not know that she carries an unlicensed firearm on her ankle, and she's closer than he thinks.

Author : Douglas Grindle
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612349541

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How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan by Douglas Grindle Pdf

Douglas Grindle provides a firsthand account of how the war in Afghanistan was won in a rural district south of Kandahar City and how the newly created peace slipped away when vital resources failed to materialize and the United States headed for the exit. By placing the reader at the heart of the American counterinsurgency effort, Grindle reveals little-known incidents, including the failure of expensive aid programs to target local needs, the slow throttling of local government as official funds failed to reach the districts, and the United States’ inexplicable failure to empower the Afghan local officials even after they succeeded in bringing the people onto their side. Grindle presents the side of the hard-working Afghans who won the war and expresses what they really thought of the U.S. military and its decisions. Written by a former field officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, this story of dashed hopes and missed opportunities details how America’s desire to leave the war behind ultimately overshadowed its desire to sustain victory. Purchase the audio edition.

Author : Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619322387

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Water I Won’t Touch by Kayleb Rae Candrilli Pdf

Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won’t Touch is a life raft and a self-portrait, concerned with the vitality of trans people living in a dangerous and inhospitable landscape. Through the brambles of the Pennsylvania forest to a stretch of the Jersey Shore, in quiet moments and violent memories, Kayleb Rae Candrilli touches the broken earth and examines the whole in its parts. Written during the body’s healing from a double mastectomy—in the wake of addiction and family dysfunction—these ambitious poems put new form to what’s been lost and gained. Candrilli ultimately imagines a joyful, queer future: a garden to harvest, lasting love, the insistent flamboyance of citrus.

Author : Charlotte Lo
Publisher : Nosy Crow
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781788000420

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We Won an Island by Charlotte Lo Pdf

One of The Telegraph's Top 50 Books of 2019! When Luna's family win an island, Luna thinks it will solve everything AND she can finally get a donkey! But things don't go entirely to plan - no one expects Luna's younger brother to win a Sheep Pageant, for example - and the secret festival they hold soon spirals out of control. But the island is beautiful, and the family are happy, and maybe Luna will get her donkey after all... "...this book is definitely a bask in the sun" - Emily Bearn, Telegraph "Watching the family band together and find a new community makes for a funny, heart-warming read." - Scotsman

Author : Patrick Ryan
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571290215

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How I Won the War by Patrick Ryan Pdf

'Well, Sergeant, here we go then', I said. 'Getting our chance at last of a good old crack at the Boche, eh...?'Ex-infantryman and reconnaissance officer, author and humorist Patrick Ryan is perhaps best remembered for this acerbically comic novel - first published in 1963 and quickly adapted into a 1967 feature film by Richard Lester, starring Michael Crawford and John Lennon. It is a satirical 'memoir' of the misadventures of the haphazard and notably naïve Lieutenant Ernest Goodbody and his fellow fighting men of Twelve Platoon - Sergeant Transom, Corporals Hink, Globe and Dooley, Private Drogue et al - as they stumble ill-preparedly into the theatres of World War Two.

Author : Hamish Robertson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781467008341

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I Won't Do Wrong by Hamish Robertson Pdf

This book is not a magic cure, but could be an aid for a sufferer or carer. If you wish to tackle this demon head on, and feel that education of the illness the only way forward, then this book is for you. Educate your self to the brim if you wish too, Hamish did, one thing that Hamish has learnt is that if you are prepared to be wrong it makes you more right even if you are not so. This book is about transient understanding and Hamish, being very transcendental, is well placed to observe and to experiment. This is not a case of the blind leading the blind but a story of how one person has ploughed through life with only his own mind and steely sincerity to work with. He has not stopped he has ploughed through life and has been able to explain his way to recovery, by writing this book. In effect educating himself better. His findings include voice hearing truths and untruths transient timing (probably the best evidence of the existence of God) Transient Response (the best way to experience God) duel realities Including Feuds Super Ego (Talking in tongues). The existence of numbers being more than just mathematical as well as other interesting true tales and short stories. He believes in four dimensions and in parallel universes, which are separated from our world and so are not dimensions but universes. He believes that there is a reason for the barrier between such universes. Having started writing for himself for personal progression he soon realised that this work could be worth something to others, and so he started writing to an audience and not just to himself. The essence of Hamish' life is represented in this book as transience, he is very transcendental and so is well placed to study its workings.

Author : Domenic Nesci
Publisher : Major Street Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-29
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781922611642

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You Won't F*ck It Up by Domenic Nesci Pdf

THE BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT INVESTING IN REAL ESTATE IS THAT IT IS ACTUALLY PRETTY SIMPLE. Investing in property can bring you financial security that you can only otherwise dream of. Whether it is your own home or an investment, the hardest part is taking the first step. The goal of this book is to help you buy that first property and then go on to build a portfolio that will create wealth and set you free financially. You Won't F*ck It Up is an easy-to-read guide that gives you the tools to set out on your property journey in any economic climate. Packed with practical information, it takes a top-down approach, starting with a big-picture discussion on what drives property value, then going into the detail of how to find and secure the right property that best fits your investing strategy. Most importantly, this book will give you the confidence to become a successful real estate investor. It's not that difficult, you just have to not f*ck it up!

Author : Alex Fry
Publisher : Just Done Productions
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 9781920169381

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How I Won the War by Alex Fry Pdf

Author : Gayle LaSalle
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780557066292

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Pearls From My Tante - Life Lessons You Won't Learn in the Classrooms by Gayle LaSalle Pdf

Please join me as I share with you the often humorous but so profound and enlightening Pearls From My Tante.

Author : Kristen Orlando
Publisher : Swoon Reads
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250123626

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You Won't Know I'm Gone by Kristen Orlando Pdf

Going rogue in an effort to rescue her kidnapped parents has cost Reagan Hillis her automatic ticket to the Training Academy. But becoming a Black Angel is the only way Reagan will be able to exact revenge on her mother’s merciless killer, Santino Torres. When Reagan is given a chance to prove that she’s worthy of training to be a Black Angel, she also gets the first chance she’s ever had to be her true self. No aliases. No disguises. But when her friend Luke joins her at the Black Angels training compound, Reagan finds herself once again torn between the person she was and the person she wants to be. Reagan has to prove that she's as good as her parents trained her to be, because she’ll never find Torres without the Black Angels’ help.

Author : Aurea McGarry
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595453696

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I Won't Survive I'll Thrive! by Aurea McGarry Pdf

"You can turn tragic into magic, as my friend Aurea has and shows you how to also. I love her brilliance and wisdom and so will you." -Mark Victor Hansen Co-creator, #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul r; Co-author, Cracking the Millionaire Code and The One Minute Millionaire "A dynamic book. McGarry shares her experiences with the confidence of a wise teacher. Readers who view alternative health books with suspicion will be inspired by her story." -Laura Axelrod, The Birmingham News "This book is a must read for those who believe anything is possible with God and equally important to the one who is ready to give up. McGarry defines "can do" and outlines the way up from down in a way that few others are capable of. Rarely does a guest come on my show and receive the positive feedback from the audience that she did. Read this book and you'll understand why!" -Doug A. Kaufmann, Best-selling author and host of the television show "Know The Cause"

Author : Paquita Suarez Coalla,Francisca Suárez Coalla
Publisher : Editorial Campana
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 097256117X

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So I Won't Forget by Paquita Suarez Coalla,Francisca Suárez Coalla Pdf

Three generations, a surprise confession and many secrets. Several Asturian women tell their histories in eighteen gripping stories. The ferocious Franco dictatorship, the Spanish Civil War, hunger, confinement, marriages, maternity, love and happiness mark the lives of mothers, daughters and granddaughters. These captivating tales with subversive and critical connotations transcend national origin to become universal.

Author : Johan Bruyneel,Bill Strickland
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780547348209

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We Might As Well Win by Johan Bruyneel,Bill Strickland Pdf

Johan Bruyneel knows what it takes to win. In 1998, this calculating Belgian and former professional cyclist looked Lance Armstrong in the eye and said, "Look, if we’re going to ride the Tour, we might as well win." In that powerful phrase a dynasty was born.We Might AsWellWin takes readers behind the scenes and inside the team car, as Bruyneel reveals the planning, training, strategy, and tactics that led to a record seven Tour de France victories with Armstrong and an eighth with Alberto Contador. Through thrilling stories of his own racing career and those of the cyclists he has guided during his extraordinary career, Bruyneel reveals the keys to victory both in cycling and in life. This paperback edition includes a new afterword on the 2008 season, with Bruyneel’s reflections on his record eleventh grand tour victory at the Giro d’Italia and the exclusion of his team Astana from the 2008 Tour de France.