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Putin and the Return of History
- How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
- By: Martin Sixsmith, Daniel Sixsmith - contributor
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance29
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Vladimir Putin is a paradox. In the early years of his presidency, he appeared to commit himself to friendship with the West, suggesting that Russia could join the European Union or even NATO. He said he supported free-market democracy and civil rights. But the Putin of those years is unrecognisable today. The Putin of the 2020s is an autocratic nationalist, dedicated to repression at home and anti-Western militarism abroad.
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The more I read the more I wanted!
- By Scott Sibbald on 14-04-24
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Putin and the Return of History
- How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 18-01-24
- Language: English
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Putin
- By: Philip Short
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 29 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall175
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Performance155
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Story153
Alone among world leaders, Vladimir Putin has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his neighbours, most recently Ukraine, meddles in Western elections and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. The regime he heads is autocratic and corrupt. Yet many Russians continue to support him. Despite Western sanctions, the majority have been living better than at any time in the past. By fair means or foul, under Putin's leadership, Russia has once again become a force to be reckoned with.
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Captivating
- By Alikado on 23-08-22
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Putin
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 29 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 30-06-22
- Language: English
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Invasion
- Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival
- By: Luke Harding
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall88
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Performance77
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Story76
For months, the omens had pointed in one scarcely believable direction: Russia was about to invade Ukraine. And yet, the world was stunned by the epochal scale of the assault that began in February 2022. It was an attempt by one nation to devour another. The Kremlin wanted nothing less than a new world order. Invasion is Luke Harding's gripping chronicle of the war that changed everything.
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Vivid journalistic eyewitness description
- By William on 03-12-22
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Invasion
- Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 22-11-22
- Language: English
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Midnight in Moscow
- A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West
- By: John J. Sullivan, Jim Mattis - introduction
- Narrated by: John J. Sullivan, Matt Godfrey
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation. For weeks before Russia’s...
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Misunderstanding Russian Motives
- By Echternacher on 05-12-24
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Midnight in Moscow
- A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West
- Narrated by: John J. Sullivan, Matt Godfrey
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 06-08-24
- Language: English
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To Run the World
- The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power
- By: Sergey Radchenko
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 30 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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In this new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides a deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin's postwar scramble for territory to Khrushchev's reckless overseas adventurism and nuclear brinksmanship, Brezhnev's jockeying for influence in the third world, and Gorbachev's failed attempts to reinvent Moscow.
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To Run the World
- The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 30 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 17-09-24
- Language: English
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Murder in the Gulag
- The explosive account of how Putin poisoned Alexei Navalny
- By: John Sweeney
- Narrated by: John Sweeney
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall84
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Performance80
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Story80
'Murder in the Gulag is brilliant journalistic writing: punchy, eloquent, page-turning and factual. It's a powerful reminder of what an extraordinary man Navalny was' - Roland Oliphant, Telegraph The gripping sequel to the bestselling Killer in the Kremlin, revised and updated for paperback...
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what a man Alexei Navalny was.
- By Frank McNamara on 24-11-25
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Murder in the Gulag
- The explosive account of how Putin poisoned Alexei Navalny
- Narrated by: John Sweeney
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-08-24
- Language: English
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Putin's Playbook
- Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America
- By: Rebekah Koffler
- Narrated by: Joyce Sternton
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance14
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Story14
Politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle have accused Russia of interfering with our elections and our intelligence agencies. But the war Russia is waging against America is very different from anything you have heard in the press, as Russian-born US intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler reveals. In Putin’s Playbook, Koffler details how Vladimir Putin is orchestrating a wide-ranging, multifaceted campaign to retake his country’s role as a superpower and to defeat America in the process.
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Authentiek inzicht
- By Adrie on 07-04-26
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Putin's Playbook
- Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America
- Narrated by: Joyce Sternton
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 27-07-21
- Language: English
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The Oligarchs
- Wealth and Power in the New Russia
- By: David Hoffman
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall144
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Performance122
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Story123
A brilliant investigative narrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy. David Hoffman, former Moscow bureau chief for
The Washington Post, sheds light onto the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men Hoffman reveals how a few players managed to take over Russia's cash-strapped economy and then divvy it up in loans-for-shares deals.
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A great narrative ruined by appalling narration
- By Simon on 10-11-16
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The Oligarchs
- Wealth and Power in the New Russia
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 17-02-14
- Language: English
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Moscow Rules
- What Drives Russia to Confront the West
- By: Keir Giles
- Narrated by: Keir Giles
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Story4
Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that Western leaders tend to think that Russia should act as a "rational" Western nation—even though Russian leaders for centuries have thought and acted based on their country's different history and traditions. Russia, through Western eyes, is unpredictable and irrational, when in fact its leaders almost always act in their own predictable and rational ways.
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A very reasonable summary of a difficult problem
- By Christopher Rawlins on 06-07-25
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Moscow Rules
- What Drives Russia to Confront the West
- Narrated by: Keir Giles
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 19-11-24
- Language: English
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The Soviet Century
- By: Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott - editor
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Departing from a simple linear history, The Soviet Century traces all the continuities and ruptures that led from the founding revolution of October 1917, to the final collapse of the late 1980s and early 1990s, passing through the Stalinist dictatorship, the impossible reforms of the Khrushchev years, and the glasnost and perestroika policies of Gorbachev.
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The Soviet Century
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-05-24
- Language: English
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Russians Among Us
- Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin’s Agents
- By: Gordon Corera
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall500
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Performance428
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Story426
The urgent, explosive story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the West from the Cold War to the present – including their interference in the 2016 presidential election. Like a scene from a le Carre novel or the TV drama The Americans, in the summer of 2010 a group of Russian deep cover...
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that's how books should be written
- By Anonymous on 13-07-20
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Russians Among Us
- Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin’s Agents
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 18-02-20
- Language: English
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Killer in the Kremlin
- The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror, Expanded edition
- By: John Sweeney
- Narrated by: John Sweeney
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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Brought to you by Penguin. 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...
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Brilliant listen
- By Anonymous on 11-03-24
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Killer in the Kremlin
- The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror, Expanded edition
- Narrated by: John Sweeney
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 16-02-23
- Language: English
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Lost Kingdom
- The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance42
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From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism. In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine -- only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries...
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informative.
- By Marcin on 20-09-22
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Lost Kingdom
- The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-10-17
- Language: English
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Who Will Defend Europe?
- An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent
- By: Keir Giles
- Narrated by: Keir Giles
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance28
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Who will defend Europe? The answer should be obvious: Europe should be able to defend itself. Yet, for decades, most of the continent enjoyed a defense holiday, outsourcing protection to the United States while banking an increasingly illusory 'peace dividend'. Now, after three decades of reducing armed forces and drawing down defense industries, Europe finds itself close to unprotected—while Russia is intent on continuing its war of expansion, and the United States is distracted and divided.
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Heldere analyse zonder sensatie.
- By Adrie on 25-01-26
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Who Will Defend Europe?
- An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent
- Narrated by: Keir Giles
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 24-10-24
- Language: English
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Young Stalin
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Abridged
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Overall170
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Performance133
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Story134
Winner of the Costa Biography Award, 2007
Young Stalin is a remarkable adventure story about an exceptional, turbulent young man, born in exoticism, raised in the church, fancying himself a poet, then embracing revolutionary idealism and thereby finding his romantic Messianic mission in life.-
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Why the abridgement?
- By Mister Peridot on 11-08-16
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Young Stalin
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 14-05-07
- Language: English
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Russia's War on Everybody
- And What It Means for You
- By: Keir Giles
- Narrated by: Keir Giles
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance28
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Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia has also been waging a clandestine war against the West for decades. Hostile acts abroad, from poisoning dissidents to shooting down airliners, interfering in elections, spying, hacking, and murdering, have long seemed to be the Kremlin's daily business. But what is it all for? Why does Russia consistently behave like this? Keir Giles explains how and why Russia pushes for more power and influence wherever it can reach, far beyond Ukraine.
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Listen
- By ndv on 06-09-23
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Russia's War on Everybody
- And What It Means for You
- Narrated by: Keir Giles
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 21-02-23
- Language: English
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To Kill a Nation
- The Attack on Yugoslavia
- By: Michael Parenti
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and democracy.
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To kill a Nation
- By Alex kuklenko on 06-04-26
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To Kill a Nation
- The Attack on Yugoslavia
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 16-07-24
- Language: English
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October
- The Story of the Russian Revolution
- By: China Mieville
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall400
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Performance348
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Story348
The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution, and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country, swept up in a desperately unpopular war, rocked by not one but two revolutions?
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dry and boring
- By mr a l atkinson on 13-12-17
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October
- The Story of the Russian Revolution
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-05-17
- Language: English
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Our Enemies Will Vanish
- By: Yaroslav Trofimov
- Narrated by: David Hurr
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war’s decisive moments—from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut—to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against Russia in a modern-day battle of David and Goliath.
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Russia must end
- By Echternacher on 29-03-25
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Our Enemies Will Vanish
- Narrated by: David Hurr
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 18-01-24
- Language: English
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The Defector
- By: Richard Kerbaj
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance2
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Drawing on newly declassified intelligence documents and dozens of interviews with spymasters, The Defector tells a startling story of a Soviet mission to plant fake Kremlin agents within British and American intelligence services, the paranoia that ensued, and how the actions of a genuine turncoat, the former KGB officer Oleg Lyalin, and the secrets he revealed resulted to one of the most dramatic and pivotal moments in the Cold War.
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A fascinating read inside the corridors of Cold War spy agencies
- By Marine Debray on 05-09-25
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The Defector
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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