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Duty : memoirs of a Secretary at war / Robert M. Gates.

Author: Gates, Robert Michael, 1943-

Description:x, 618 pages, [32] p. of plates (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm

Note:Includes index.

Note:Summoned to duty -- Iraq, Iraq and Iraq-- Mending fences, finding allies -- Waging war on the Pentagon -- Beyond Iraq: a complicated world -- Good war, bad war -- One damn thing after another -- Transition -- New term, new agenda, old secretary -- Afghanistan: a house divided -- Difficult foes, difficult friends -- Meanwhile, back in Washington -- War, war? and revolution -- At war to the last day -- Reflections.

ProductionNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

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