Häftad, memoarer av Robert Gates som var försvarsminister både under George Bush och Barack Obama. Försiktigt läst, närmare nyskick om det inte vore för lite hanteringsmärken, se bilder.

ISBN: 9780753555552, 620 sidor. Språk engelska.

Om boken:

As I look back, there is a parallel theme to my years at war: love. By
that I mean the love - there is no other word for it - I came to feel
for the troops, and the overwhelming sense of personal responsibility I
developed for them. So much so that it would shape some of my most
significant decisions and positions.' When Robert M. Gates received a
call from the White House, he thought hed long left Washington politics
behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the
National Security Council, he was happily serving as president of Texas
A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two
wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt
was the call of duty. Robert Gates was US Secretary of Defense from
2006 to 2011 serving under both George Bush and Barack Obama. Before
that he was Director of the CIA. This is his candid and revealing
account of US military engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan, where Gates
oversaw the controversial surge of US troops in both countries. As well
as this, he also provides commentary on the situations in Syria, Iran,
Israel and North Korea and details behind the scenes meetings with Bush,
Cheney, Rice, Obama and other major political figures. Mr. Gates is
the only Secretary of Defense to serve under both a Republican and a
Democratic president, and in Duty he provides an unsparing, full
accounting of his tenure.