{"product_id":"shooting-at-the-moon","title":"Shooting at the Moon (RARE BOOKS)","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTHE CIA IN ITS GLORY DAYS and the mad confidence that led to disaster in Vietnam are the subjects of Roger Warner's prizewinning history, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShooting at the Moon: The CIA's War in Laos\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(first published as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBack Fire,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSimon \u0026amp; Schuster, 1995). For a few years in the early 1960s the CIA seemed to be running a perfect covert war in Laos - quiet, inexpensive, just enough arms to help Meo tribesmen defend their home territory from the Communist Pathet Lao. Then the big American war next door in Vietnam spilled across the border. How the perfect covert war ballooned into sorrow and disaster is the story Roger Warner tell in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShooting at the Moon,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e awarded the Cornelius Ryan Award for 1995's Best Book on Foreign Affairs by the Overseas Press Club.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Clapping Pages","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":45158245892282,"sku":"2SVZLU41T-Used","price":159.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/5576\/0826\/files\/ShootingattheMoon.jpg?v=1758071742","url":"https:\/\/clappingpages.com\/products\/shooting-at-the-moon","provider":"Clapping Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}