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Beirut 1958

Beirut 1958

Bruce Riedel

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Editorial:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2019
Materia
Política y gobierno
ISBN:
9780815737292

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Bruce Riedel's book tells the now-forgotten story (forgotten, that is, in the United States) of the first U.S. combat operation in the Middle East. Find out about the 1958 U.S. intervention that succeeded and apply those lessons to today's conflicts in the Middle East.

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