Duty : Memoirs of a Secretary at war

From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought hed left Washington politic...

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Tác giả chính: Gates, Robert Michael
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Được phát hành: New York : Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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