Killer in the Kremlin
The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror, Expanded edition
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The instant Sunday Times Bestseller - now updated with four new chapters.
A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe.
In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes listeners from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine.
In a disturbing exposé of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war.
Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putin's hand, we see the heroism of the Russian opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, and the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating or locking away its critics, and stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims.
In the midst of one of the darkest acts of aggression in modern history - Russia's invasion of Ukraine - this book shines a light on Putin's rule and poses urgent questions about how the world must respond.
"No one in the world will forgive you for killing peaceful people." (Volodymyr Zelenskiy, President of Ukraine)
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Mark Colvin is a broadcasting legend. He is the voice of ABC Radio’s leading current affairs program PM; he was a founding broadcaster for the groundbreaking youth station Double J; he initiated The World Today program; and he’s one of the most popular and influential journalists in the twittersphere. Mark has been covering local and global events for more than four decades. He has reported on wars, royal weddings and everything in between. In the midst of all this he discovered that his father was an MI6 spy.
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- De Robyn en 04-12-17
De: Mark Colvin
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Lenin's Tomb
- The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
- De: David Remnick
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 29 h y 6 m
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In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism.
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The moral complexity of a comic book
- De Tot en 02-22-19
De: David Remnick
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The Taliban Shuffle
- Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- De: Kim Barker
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent—she is candid, self-deprecating, laugh-out-loud funny. At first an awkward newbie in Afghanistan, she grows into a wisecracking, seasoned reporter with grave concerns about our ability to win hearts and minds in the region. In The Taliban Shuffle, Barker offers an insider’s account of the “forgotten war” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, chronicling the years after America’s initial routing of the Taliban, when we failed to finish the job.
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Warring Your Way to Peace Does Not Work
- De Sue en 09-01-12
De: Kim Barker
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The Operators
- The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
- De: Michael Hastings
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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An explosive, behind-the-scenes look into the workings of the U.S. war in Afghanistan that lifts the curtain of the world stage to reveal the devastating greed, waste, and failure surrounding this unwinnable war.
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VERY INTERESTING STORY
- De Professor en 01-04-13
De: Michael Hastings
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The Terror Years
- From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
- De: Lawrence Wright
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer, Lawrence Wright
- Duración: 17 h y 24 m
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With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection draws on several articles he wrote while researching that book as well as many that he's written since, following where and how al-Qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread.
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Contains much old material from "Looming Tower"
- De peter en 09-21-16
De: Lawrence Wright
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The Morning They Came for Us
- Dispatches from Syria
- De: Janine di Giovanni
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
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Doing for Syria what Imperial Life in the Emerald City did for the war in Iraq, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience covering Syria for Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and the front pages of the New York Times, award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni gives us a tour de force of war reportage, all told through the perspective of ordinary people.
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Bearing Witness to the Brutalities of War
- De Theo Horesh en 06-07-18
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Charlie Wilson's War
- The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
- De: George Crile
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 20 h y 24 m
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Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. George Crile tells how Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the agency's history.
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The REAL Story of the Middle East and the CIA
- De Dale en 08-24-04
De: George Crile
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HHhH
- De: Laurent Binet
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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HHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most dangerous man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich was known as the "Butcher of Prague." He was feared by all and loathed by most. With his cold Aryan features and implacable cruelty, Heydrich seemed indestructible-until two men, a Slovak and a Czech recruited by the British secret service-killed him in broad daylight on a bustling street in Prague, and thus changed the course of History.
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Himlers Hirn heisst Heydrich
- De Darwin8u en 02-02-13
De: Laurent Binet
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Inside the Kingdom
- Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia
- De: Robert Lacey
- Narrado por: Robert Lacey
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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Best-selling author Robert Lacey tells us what happened in the Middle East's oil-rich powerhouse---while we weren't looking.
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Inside the Kingdom
- De Ibrahim en 03-19-10
De: Robert Lacey
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Into the Hands of the Soldiers
- Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
- De: David D. Kirkpatrick
- Narrado por: David D. Kirkpatrick
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
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Egypt has long set the paradigm for Arab autocracy. It is the keeper of the peace with Israel and the cornerstone of the American-backed regional order. So when Egyptians rose up to demand democracy in 2011, their 30 months of freedom convulsed the whole region. Now a new strongman, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is building a dictatorship so severe some call it totalitarian. The economy sputters, an insurgency simmers, Christians suffer, and the Israeli military has been forced to intervene. But some in Washington - including President Trump - applaud Sisi as a crucial ally.
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may get better, but presentation is off putting
- De Fruggs en 08-28-18
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The Butcher's Trail
- How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt
- De: Julian Borger
- Narrado por: Paul Hodgson
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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Written with a thrilling narrative pull, The Butcher's Trail chronicles the pursuit and capture of the Balkan war criminals indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Borger recounts how Radovan Karadžic and Ratko Mladic - both now on trial in The Hague - were finally tracked down and describes the intrigue behind the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav president who became the first head of state to stand before an international tribunal for crimes perpetrated in a time of war.
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The most comprehensive and unbiased account of ICTY’s inception and development to date
- De AR en 04-18-22
De: Julian Borger
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The Art of Betrayal
- The Secret History of MI6 - Life and Death in the British Secret Service
- De: Gordon Corera
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 17 h y 44 m
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From Berlin to the Congo, from Moscow to the back streets of London, these are the stories of the agents on the front lines of British intelligence. And the truth is often more remarkable than fiction.
MI6 has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it was created a hundred years ago. Our understanding of what it is to be a spy has been largely defined by the fictional worlds of Ian Fleming and John le Carré. Gordon Corera provides a unique and unprecedented insight into this secret world and the reality that lies behind the fiction.
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Good details but lacks thorough research
- De Unapologetic en 09-06-17
De: Gordon Corera
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To Die in Mexico
- Dispatches from Inside the Drug War
- De: John Gibler
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
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Combining on-the-ground reporting and in-depth discussions with people on the frontlines of Mexico's drug war, To Die in Mexico tells behind-the-scenes stories that address the causes and consequences of Mexico's multibillion dollar drug trafficking business. John Gibler looks beyond the myths that pervade government and media portrayals of the unprecedented wave of violence now pushing Mexico to the breaking point.
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Warning: you may finish this audiobook outraged.
- De Susie en 07-13-16
De: John Gibler
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The Assassins' Gate
- America in Iraq
- De: George Packer
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 19 h y 43 m
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The Assassins' Gate, so dubbed by American soldiers, is the entrance to the American zone in the city of Baghdad. In 2003, the United States blazed into Iraq to depose dictator Saddam Hussein. But after three years and unknown thousands killed, that country faces an escalating civil war and an uncertain fate. How did it get to this point?
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Highly Recommended
- De Drapeau en 02-01-07
De: George Packer
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Son of Hamas
- A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
- De: Mosab Hassan Yousef, Ron Brackin - contributor
- Narrado por: Mosab Hassan Yousef
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its most popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in his political activities while being groomed to assume his legacy, politics, status...and power. But everything changed when Mosab turned away from terror and violence and embraced instead the teachings of another famous Middle East leader.
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Very insightful look at the underbelly of Hamas.
- De C,L, Richey en 05-05-14
De: Mosab Hassan Yousef, y otros
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Sweeney lost me when he started bashing and implying criminality toward, President Trump. Yet with Trump there was no war in Ukraine , economy was good, gas was cheap and the southern border was secure.
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