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Review: Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia To Confront The West – by Keir Giles
I am a new member of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, in London. On a recent visit, I made use of the vast resources of a very well-stocked library at Chatham House and this book is the first of the loans that I have finished reading. It is apt as Keir Giles… Continue reading
Arab, Armageddon, autocracy, Baltic States, Baltics, border, Brezhnev, buffer, buffer state, Catherine the Great, Chatham House, Christian Missionaries, cold war, Communism, Communist, democracy, diplomat, Europe, foreign policy, geoplotics, Gorbachev, hitler, Keri Giles, KGB, Khrushchev, Kyiv, Little Russia, Mad, middle east, Mikhail Gorbachev, miltary, Moscow, Mother Russia, Napoleon, NATO, Nazi, North America, nuclear war, oligarch, peace, Peter the Great, Propaganda, psychology, Putin, Revolution, Russia, Russia and Eurasia, Russian Revoluution, Soviet Union, the west, thinktank, Tsar, USA, USSR, Vladimir Putin, war -
Review: Defending The Realm – MI5 and The Shayler Affair – by Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding
This is just another one of the many books I’ve read on the security services / spies / intelligence agencies in general. I guess I have a morbid fascination. Non-fiction throws up some pretty weird stuff – Life itself is a lot stranger than fiction. This tale from a turncoat ex MI5 employee David Shayler,… Continue reading
Afghanistan, Beijing, Belmarsh, betrayal, Birtish Empire, Britain, British, British Empire, British Press, brokenbritain, bureaucracy, Capitalism, Chiona, CIA, City of London, civil service, cold war, Colonel Gadaffi, Commonwealth, Communism, commusit, computers, corporation, crime, criminal, Daily Mail, Dame Stella Rimington, David Shayler, Davy Jones' Locker, death penalty, Defending The Realm, DOnald Trump, DPRK, enemy of the state, espionage, execution, France, GCHQ, Government, Great Britian, Human rights, hung, hung drawn and quartered, injustice, intelligence, INTERPOL, IRA, Isalmic, Islam, Islamic Terror, Israel, IT, jail, James Bond, justice, KGB, kim philby, Kremlin, liberty, Libya, Lockerbie, London, management, Mark Hollingsworth, MI5, mi6, Microsoft, Military, Moscow, Mossad, national security, Nick Fielding, Nicrosoft Windows 95, non-fiction, North Korea, Official Secrets Act, parliament, Politics, poltics, Prince Harry, prison, Pyongyang, red top, Robert Maxwell, Rupert Murdoch, Russia, Russians, Scandal, security, security services, Shayler, SHayler Affair, spies, spy, tabloid journalism, tech, terrorism, Thatcher, treachery, treason, Twitter, U.K., United Kingdom, USA, war, whistelblower, Windows, Windows 95 -
Review: Kim – by Rudyard Kipling
‘Kim’ is recognised as the greatest work of famous author Rudyard Kipling. This is a cult novel especially in espionage circles. It is fiction but documents the widely popular Great Game between the British Empire and Tsarist Russia, a clandestine cat and mouse conflict between the two powers fought out on in British India and… Continue reading
British Empire, Buddhism, buddhist, Chela, classics, colonialism, enlightenment, espionage, fiction, Geography, Great Britain, Great Game, himalayas, Hindi, Hindu, Imperial India, India, Islam, KGB, Kim, kim philby, Kipling, lama, Little Friend of the World, mi6, Muslim, Musselman, Queen Victoris, Raj, religion, Rudyard Kipling, Russia, Sahib, Soviet Union, Spiritual, spy, The Great Game, The Wheel of Life, Travel, treachery, Tsar, Tsarist Russia, U.K., United Kingdom -
Review: Russians Among Us – Sleeper Cells & The Hunt for Putin’s Agents – by Gordon Correra
I’ve read Gordon Correra’s previous work in espionage literature and for this reason I was drawn to seek out this new offering. In the current climate of the Russian invasion of Ukraine under ex KGB spy, Vladimir Putin, I felt that this relatively recent work would highlight some of the ongoing dangers of Russian spies… Continue reading
Alexander Litvinenko, Alexander Poteyev, CIA, cold war, Communist, coomunism, DOnald Trump, espionage, FBI, FSB, Gordon Correra, GRU, illegals, KGB, London, mi6, Novichok, Polonium, Putin, Russia, Russian, Salisbury, Sergei Skripal, sleeper cells, Soviet Union, The Americans, the west, U.K., Ukraine, USA, Vladimir Putin, war -
Review: Memoirs – by Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev was one of the most influential and critical figures of the twentieth century. When I was growing up in the 1980s he was part os a set of international world leaders that seemingly had much more influence over people than the political leaders of today. Gorbachev was the last leader of he Soviet… Continue reading
Baltic States, Belorussia, Berlin Wall, Boris Yeltsin, cold war, Communism, Communist, Crimea, espionage, François Mitterand, glasnost, Gorbachev, KGB, Mad, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Military, NATO, Nomenclatura, perestroika, Politburo, Politics, Putin, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Soviet Union, Stalin, Ukraine, USSR, Vladmir Putin, Warsaw Pact, World Leader -
Review: Putin’s People – How the KGB took back Russia and then took on The West – by Catherine Belton
The author of this, the best study of Vladimir Putin that I have read to date, is Catherine Belton, a Financial Times journalist that was based in Moscow. It is a comprehensive study of the rise of Putin and how he has cemented a Tsar-like power as head of the New Russia. We go from… Continue reading
Belton, Boris Berezovsky, Boris Yeltsin, Brexit, Capitalism, Catherine Belton, cold war, Communism, Conservative, Conservative Party, Conservatives, corruption, crime, DOnald Trump, Dostoyevsky, espionage, Financial Times, FSB, Gangster, KGB, Kremlin, London, Londongrad, mafia, Mikhail Khodorkhovsky, Moscoow, Moscow, oligarch, Organised Crime, organized crime, Panama Papers, Putin, Roman Abramovich, Russia, Russian Mafia, siloviki, Soviet Union, spy, St Petersburg, Tambov, Tambov Group, Trump, Trump Towers, Tsar, U.K., Ukraine, USA, USSR, Vladimir Putin -
Review: The Billion Dollar Spy – by David E. Hoffman
This espionage thriller tells the true life story of one of the Cold War’s most valuable assets, a Russian spy working for the CIA in the heart of the Soviet military aerospace sector. Adolf Tolkachev made the first tentative moves to reach out to the Americans in January 1977, in the heart of Moscow. At… Continue reading
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Review: MI6 – Fifty Years of Special Operations – by Stephen Dorril
This detailed 800 page book covers fifty years of MI6, the UK’s foreign espionage service. From relatively humble beginnings during the second world war, MI6 grew to become a leading foe of Soviet Russia and its notorious KGB. The book documents in detail issues that affected the service from the beginning and I especially was… Continue reading
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Review: The Last Empire – The Final Days of the Soviet Union – by Serhii Plokhy
When the Soviet Union ended and thus the Cold War ended on Christmas Day 1991, it was probably one of the biggest political events of my lifetime. This well-researched, detailed book, by Ukrainian author Serhii Plokhy, details the last 18 months of the Soviet Union’s existence. After USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev’s revolutionary policies of Glasnost… Continue reading
AMerica, August 1991, August coup, Baltics, Boris Yeltsin, CIS, cold war, Commonwealth of Independent States, Communism, Crimea, Dacha, domino effect, end of cold war, Estonia, fall of communism, george bush, George H.W. Bush, glasnost, Gorbachev, KGB, Latvia, Leonid Kravchuk, Lithuania, Mikhail Gorbachev, Party Centre, perestroika, President Bush, Russia, serhii plokhy, Soviet Union, the last empire, Ukraine, USA, USSR, Yugoslavia -
Review: A Spy Among Friends – Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal – by Ben Macintyre
Telling the remarkable story of Kim Philby, who was probably the most effective spy in history, this book reads fast and furiously, a real page-turner. The book focuses on the dramatic relationship between two friends, both rising stars in the world of British espionage, Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby. The intrigue of Philby is that… Continue reading
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