{"product_id":"9781101572344","title":"The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe dramatic secret history of our undeclared thirty-year conflict  with Iran, revealing newsbreaking episodes of covert and deadly  operations that brought the two nations to the brink of open war\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor three decades, the United States and Iran have engaged in a secret  war. It is a conflict that has never been acknowledged and a story that  has never been told.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis surreptitious war began with the Iranian revolution and simmers  today inside Iraq and in the Persian Gulf. Fights rage in the shadows,  between the CIA and its network of spies and Iran's intelligence agency.  Battles are fought at sea with Iranians in small speedboats attacking  Western oil tankers. This conflict has frustrated five American  presidents, divided administrations, and repeatedly threatened to bring  the two nations into open warfare. It is a story of shocking  miscalculations, bitter debates, hidden casualties, boldness, and  betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA senior historian for the federal government with unparalleled access  to senior officials and key documents of several U.S. administrations,  Crist has spent more than ten years researching and writing \u003ci\u003eThe  Twilight War\u003c\/i\u003e, and he breaks new ground on virtually every page. Crist  describes the series of secret negotiations between Iran and the United  States after 9\/11, culminating in Iran's proposal for a grand bargain for  peace-which the Bush administration turned down. He documents the  clandestine counterattack Iran launched after America's 2003 invasion of  Iraq, in which thousands of soldiers disguised as reporters, tourists,  pilgrims, and aid workers toiled to change the government in Baghdad and  undercut American attempts to pacify the Iraqi insurgency. And he reveals  in vivid detail for the first time a number of important stories of  military and intelligence operations by both sides, both successes and  failures, and their typically unexpected consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch has changed in the world since 1979, but Iran and America remain  each other's biggest national security nightmares. \"The Iran problem\" is  a razor-sharp briar patch that has claimed its sixth presidential victim  in Barack Obama and his administration. \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight War\u003c\/i\u003e adds  vital new depth to our understanding of this acute dilemma it is also a  thrillingly engrossing read, animated by a healthy irony about human  failings in the fog of not-quite war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133282402544,"sku":"9781101572344","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101572344_p0.jpg?v=1763687933","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101572344","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}