Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001Modern · History, Nonfiction, Politics
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
2004 · 712 pages · Nonfiction
65
Modern
★ 4.32 on Goodreads · 20K ratings
≈ 18 hours to read · about 5 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) winner (2005). 4.32★ from 20K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
65Must-Read Score
- Critics56 out of 100 · counts 35%+23
- Readers75 out of 100 · counts 50%+42
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Where it ranks
- #12 of the 55 politics books we rank
- #42 of the 220 history books we rank
- #50 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #154 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) winner (2005)
Reads as
True story
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