Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023
*A Telegraph Book of the Year*
A Times Best Book of Summer 2023
*Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards*
An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol.
The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War – and yet at the heart of the conflict is a mystery. Vladimir Putin apparently lurched from a calculating, subtle master of opportunity to a reckless gambler, putting his regime – and Russia itself – at risk of destruction. Why?
Drawing on over 25 years’ experience as a correspondent in Moscow, as well as his own family ties to Russia and Ukraine, journalist Owen Matthews takes us through the poisoned historical roots of the conflict, into the Covid bubble where Putin conceived his invasion plans in a fog of paranoia about Western threats, and finally into the inner circle around Ukrainian president and unexpected war hero Volodimir Zelensky.
Using the accounts of current and former insiders from the Kremlin and its propaganda machine, the testimony of captured Russian soldiers and on-the-ground reporting from Russia and Ukraine, Overreach tells the story not only of the war’s causes but how the first six months unfolded.
With its panoramic view, Overreach is an authoritative, unmissable record of a conflict that shocked Europe to its core.
© 2022 Mudlark (Ljudbok): 9780008562762
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 17 november 2022
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Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023
*A Telegraph Book of the Year*
A Times Best Book of Summer 2023
*Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards*
An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol.
The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War – and yet at the heart of the conflict is a mystery. Vladimir Putin apparently lurched from a calculating, subtle master of opportunity to a reckless gambler, putting his regime – and Russia itself – at risk of destruction. Why?
Drawing on over 25 years’ experience as a correspondent in Moscow, as well as his own family ties to Russia and Ukraine, journalist Owen Matthews takes us through the poisoned historical roots of the conflict, into the Covid bubble where Putin conceived his invasion plans in a fog of paranoia about Western threats, and finally into the inner circle around Ukrainian president and unexpected war hero Volodimir Zelensky.
Using the accounts of current and former insiders from the Kremlin and its propaganda machine, the testimony of captured Russian soldiers and on-the-ground reporting from Russia and Ukraine, Overreach tells the story not only of the war’s causes but how the first six months unfolded.
With its panoramic view, Overreach is an authoritative, unmissable record of a conflict that shocked Europe to its core.
© 2022 Mudlark (Ljudbok): 9780008562762
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 17 november 2022
Taggar
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Jan
16 dec. 2023
Mycket intressant även om den ibland är onödigt "pratig"
Jim
1 aug. 2023
Outstanding.
Josefin
23 dec. 2022
Mycket intressant. Lätt att lyssna på trots att den är på engelska.
Hans
6 jan. 2023
Ovärderligt insiktsfull vad gäller Ryssland och ryska attityder i konflikten.
Hannes
6 apr. 2023
Väldigt informativ, intressant och lättlyssnad.Mycket information som jag inte tidigare hört samt väl sammanfattat.
Ulrica
28 juni 2023
Bra sammanfattning av läget
Philip
15 jan. 2023
Book about Russia, Putin and Russian civilians in the context of the beginning of the war. Ukrainian civilians and Zelensky appear only as place holders. Still, a good effort. Free from the mind numbing oligarch name dropping you usually find in books on Putin and Russia. A bit much on the tribulations of Russian professionals and business people for my taste, they are not the victims here.
David
20 feb. 2023
Tycker det var en bra och intressant bok. Om han skriver en fortsättning om kriget framöver kommer jag definitivt att lyssna på den.
M
30 jan. 2023
Bra, om än lite spretig
Joel
14 juli 2023
Mycket bra bakgrundsbeskrivning till varför Ryssland startade kriget mot Ukraina.
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