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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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Available on 07/07/2026
ISBN: 9798228347922
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Available on 07/07/2026
ISBN: 9798228347915
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Available on 07/07/2026
ISBN: 9798228347939
| Runtime: | 10.04 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Political Science |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
"A tale of violence and political intrigue that reads like a Tom Clancy novel written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky." —The Wall Street Journal
"Riveting … It's a vital window onto the weird world of secretive, privatized modern warfare." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
An eye-opening, terrifying history of this notorious and widely influential mercenary group.
This book exposes the history and the future of the Wagner Group, Russia's notorious and secretive mercenary army, revealing details of their operations never documented before. Using extensive
leaks, first-hand accounts, and the byzantine paper trail left in the group's wake, Jack Margolin traces the Wagner Group from its roots as a battlefield rumor to a private military enterprise tens
of thousands–strong that eventually comes to threaten Putin himself. He follows individual commanders and foot soldiers within the group as they fight in Ukraine, Syria, and Africa, sometimes
alongside fellow military contractors from the United Kingdom and the United States. He shows Wagner mercenaries committing atrocities, plundering oil, diamonds, and gold, and changing the course
of conflicts from Europe to Africa in the name of the Kremlin's strategic aims.
In documenting the Wagner Group's story up to the dramatic demise of its chief director, Evgeniy Prigozhin, Margolin demonstrates that Wagner was not an aberration, but a manifestation of the new
geopolitical order of global capital, global crime, and of the entrepreneurs that thrive in it.
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Political Science |
| Runtime: | 10.04 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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