King's counsel
Subtitle: a memoir of war, espionage, and diplomacy in the Middle East
By: Jack O'Connell with Vernon Loeb
Contributors: Loeb, Vernon
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780393063349
Subjects: Politics and government; Friends and associates; Lawyers; Officials and employees; Israel-Arab War, 1967; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States; Biography; Political consultants; Foreign relations
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Summer in Amman, 1958; title: A shotgun in the closet; title: Calm before the storm; title: The prelude to war; title: The six day war; title: Making things up as we went along; title: "Can I trust this little king of yours?"; title: Jousting with the Soviets, talking to the Israelis; title: September 1970; title: Back to Washington, back to war; title: From Washington to Camp David; title: Giving up the West Bank; title: Saddam Hussein : friend or foe?; title: A war that need not have been waged; title: Cold peace; title: Missed opportunities, miscalculations, and mistakes; title: "A place beyond ourselves"; title: Most of our enemies, we made; title: Many drums to pound; title: Irrepressible optimism.