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Duty : memoirs of a Secretary at war
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Title
Duty : memoirs of a Secretary at war / Robert M. Gates.
ISBN
9780307959478 (hardcover)
0307959473 (hardcover)
9780307959485 (ebook)
9780804148641 (compact disk)
9780804148658 (audiobook download)
Publication
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Physical Description
618 pages, 32 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
The former Secretary of Defense offers a candid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Variant and related titles
Memoirs of a Secretary at war.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 14, 2014
Contents
Summoned to duty
Iraq, Iraq and Iraq
Mending fences, finding allies
Waging war on the Pentagon
Beyond Iraq: a complicated world
Good war, bad war
One damn thing after another
Transition
New term, new agenda, old secretary
Afghanistan: a house divided
Difficult foes, difficult friends
Meanwhile, back in Washington
War, war? and revolution
At war to the last day
Reflections.
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