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- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGuardian Faber Publishing
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2013
- Dimensions4.96 x 0.75 x 7.8 inches
- ISBN-101783350172
- ISBN-13978-1783350179
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- Publisher : Guardian Faber Publishing; Tie-In edition (January 1, 2013)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1783350172
- ISBN-13 : 978-1783350179
- Item Weight : 8.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.96 x 0.75 x 7.8 inches
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In 2007 I arrived in Moscow with my wife and young family. I was a career foreign correspondent working for the British newspaper The Guardian. My previous postings were to Delhi and Berlin. I had chronicled George Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, reported from the frontline and dodged incoming mortar fire. Surely Russia would be easy? Not quite, it turned out.
Within a few months we found ourselves in a badly written spy novel. Unpromising young men followed me around the icy streets. Secret agents broke into our apartment, on one occasion opening the window next to our six-year-old son's bed. We lived on the tenth floor. The UK embassy explained that these ghostly visitors worked for the FSB. This was the main successor agency to the KGB. Its former boss was Vladimir Putin, Russia's president.
I wrote about these experiences in a 2011 memoir, Mafia State (published in the US as Expelled). They fuelled much of my subsequent work as a non-fiction writer. Why had Putin's undercover agents picked on me? I was never entirely sure. My attempts to unravel the 2006 murder of Alexander Litvinenko may have played a part and certainly contributed to the Kremlin's decision to deport me from Russia, in the first case of its kind since the Cold War.
In London, I followed a public inquiry into Litvinenko's teapot assassination. It concluded Putin "probably" approved the operation using radioactive polonium. My book about the case, A Very Expensive Poison, is a dramatic account of one of this century's most lurid crimes. The playwright Lucy Prebble adapted it into an award-winning stage play at the Old Vic theatre in London; it was shortlisted for the 2017 Crime Writers' Association Non-fiction Dagger Prize.
My next book sought to answer a question which haunts us still: what does Vladimir Putin have on the former US president Donald Trump? The dossier by the former MI6 officer Christopher Steele says Putin's spies secretly filmed Trump in a Moscow hotel room. The claim always struck me as plausible; the FSB specialises in covert recordings and once left a sex manual by our marital bed. "Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money and How Russia helped Trump Win" was a number one New York Times best-seller.
Like its predecessors, my 2018 book Shadow State is a real-life thriller. The story is incredible but true. Two Russian colonels arrive in Salisbury on a mission to murder a renegade colleague, Sergei Skripal. Shadow State further describes the myriad ways in which the Kremlin is seeking to subvert our democracy and overwhelm our politics, via cyber-hacking, disinformation, and corruption.
My latest book "Invasion: Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival", is published in November 2022 by Vintage and Guardian Faber. It is the first account of a war that has transformed international relations and which has led to an outpouring of support for Ukraine in the US, UK and beyond. Invasion is a gripping and compelling first draft of history, I hope, of a story that concerns and touches us all.
When Putin's overweening assault began at 4am on February 24, 2022 I was in Kyiv. His goal? To topple president Volodymyr Zelenskiy and to wipe Ukraine from the map. As Putin saw it Ukraine was "historical Russia". I spent the early hours of the invasion sheltering in an underground car park. A mother arrived with her children; the kids' were clutching colouring books. War had arrived. It was Europe's biggest since 1945. Civilians would be its main victims. I spent 2022 on the frontline.
My focus as a writer and correspondent is on the human story. "Invasion" describes the horrors of Bucha and Mariupol; the grinding artillery battle in eastern Ukraine; and the mass graves and torture chambers found in former zones of Russian occupation. I travelled to the north-east Kharkiv region, to areas liberated in autumn by a Ukrainian counter-offensive. In November 2022 I visited bombed villages in Kherson oblast, in the south, days after a Russian pull-out across the Dnipro river.
I have also written books on Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and the Conservative politician Jonathan Aitken. The director Oliver Stone made The Snowden Files into a biopic, Snowden; Dreamworks adapted my book WikiLeaks - written with David Leigh - into The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Assange is not portrayed as a hero. Neither, obviously, is he made out to be a criminal. The Assange story is simply not unproblematic. Modern heroes are not spotless. The fact is that the existence of WikiLeaks stands out as a game changer in the last 10-20 years of world history.
Most value in this book is the focus on Bradley Manning. It's not a glamorous story and so the details are a hard to get hold of. This book does a very good job of that. Manning drew the short straw, and because of that WikiLeaks has a clear cause and right to exist.
By Stephen Muires, author of
Ordained: Part I Denmark (Volume 1)
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It is a very informative book – informative about how our world works, about human life and behaviour and about politics. Some of the key things that I gained from this book are:-
1. My current government seems to ask “how high” when America says jump, while our last government at least tried to say “hold on there a minute.” As we are Britain not America, the latter seems to me to be the sensible approach, as we are an older and hopefully wiser nation. Don’t get me wrong America can be so much more enabling than Britain (eg in self publishing) but we are not America. Equally as the cables make clear America seems to be a little amused at our desire to be “special”. I don’t blame the Americans it makes me smile as well.
2. While this book has therefore had me shaking my head at my current government, it has actually enhanced my respect for America, as it is clear that its State department does do a lot of, what seems to be, sensible, thoughtful, analysis of the world. All major governments probably do that but from what I know, from this book, Americas state department does do it proud.
3. There is a clear “feed the public brown stuff” when it comes to what really happens in war. This “say-do” gap clearly once worked well, but with the increasing number of American whistleblowers this really is becoming untenable. Also as we continue to evolve such “pr” is likely to increasingly do more harm than good. Surely a better solution is to help evolve humanity, reduce war, and find other more profitable activities for the industrial/military complex to dig their teeth into?
Now the negatives:-
1. In some places the book wasn’t as fluid as I would have liked – it didn’t keep my attention glued continually. Though to be fair that is difficult for any book to achieve. And I did enjoy reading it.
2. While the book gave me a clearer understanding of Manning [I can understand his frustration that day he found out that they were seeking to imprison people who were allegedly exposing corruption – but as a serving soldier you must respect the chain of command – it is there for a very good reason], of wikileaks, I am still struggling to get my mind fully around Assange. He is a very interesting character but I still feel as if I don’t know him, as well as I perhaps could. He seems to have a good heart, even if he, like all of us, has made mistakes in life. But yet I still feel that I should understand him better by now. Perhaps I need to knock on the door of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and ask to chat to him!
Overall, the lesson from this book for me was – you know I don’t really know, so that lost the book one star. I enjoyed reading it, it made me feel sympathy for my government (UK) for the American government, for the Ecuadorian government, and for Manning. Having recently read “The Snowden Files” the material in this book on Snowden didn’t really affect me.
Final thought – Mannings treatment and sentence clearly didn’t stop Snowden, so further fear based management might just incite more whistleblowers from within American intelligence to spill the beans. And now that the public know what the spooks get up to in greater detail, perhaps our intelligence agencies need to take “an evolutionary step up in their game?” [by which I mean, keep within laws, ensure staff feel that the “right thing is being done” and perhaps most importantly divorcing politics from intelligence, while ensuring proper oversight – tricky I give you]. Think about it Manning felt that America was wrong to be aiding the imprisonment of people allegedly trying to fight corruption in their own country and Snowden felt that the Constitution of America was being broken. And therein lies the hub of the wikileaks issue – and also the solution to it. I can only hope that America chooses to step positively forwards and inspire as opposed to fear based retrenchment.
Still, a good read, but not as good as I was expecting.