Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
- ISBN-10
- 0307959473
- ISBN-13
- 9780307959478
- Series
- Duty
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 618
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- Robert Michael Gates
Description
The former Secretary of Defense offers a candid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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