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  Title

  The twilight war : the secret history of America's thirty-year conflict with Iran

  Author

  Crist, David.  

  Publisher:

  Penguin Press,

  Pub date:

  2012.

  Pages:

  638 p., [16] p. of plates :

  ISBN:

  9781594203411

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Aurora Campus.
  

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    Aurora Campus	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    E183.8 .I55 C75 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9781594203411 : $36.00

  ISBN:

  1594203415

  Personal Author:

  Crist, David.

  Title:

  The twilight war : the secret history of America's thirty-year conflict with Iran / David Crist.

  Publication info:

  New York, N.Y. : Penguin Press, 2012.

  Physical description:

  638 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

  Contents:

  "A little king in your heart" -- A new grand strategy -- Barbed-wire Bob -- A den of spies -- A fig leaf of neutrality -- Sharon's grand design -- A spectacular action -- The American Hamlet -- Arms for the Ayatollah -- Sleepy Hollow -- A ring on the American finger -- The wake-up call -- The invisible hand of God -- A window of opportunity -- The night stalkers -- A very close call -- No higher honor -- Good-bye, Captain Nasty -- The terrible climax -- Goodwill begets goodwill -- War or peace -- An atrocity -- An Axis of Evil -- Defeat or victory -- The freedom agenda -- A quasi-war -- An extended hand and a closed fist.

  Summary:

  Reveals the covert operations that have brought the United States and Iran to the brink of open war, including Iran's proposal for peace after 9/11, which was rejected by President Bush, and Iran's secret army in post-U.S. invasion Iraq.

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  Corporate subject:

  United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

  Subject term:

  Espionage, American--History.

  Subject term:

  Espionage, Iranian--History.

  Geographic term:

  United States--Foreign relations--Iran.

  Geographic term:

  Iran--Foreign relations--United States.

  Geographic term:

  United States--Military relations--Iran.

  Geographic term:

  Iran--Military relations--United States.

  Geographic term:

  United States--Foreign relations--1981-1989.

  Geographic term:

  United States--Foreign relations--1989-

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