Shadowplay Behind the Lines and Unde..., Tim Marshall
Shadowplay Behind the Lines and Unde..., Tim Marshall
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Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire
The Inside Story of Europe's Last War

Author: Tim Marshall

Narrator: Tim Marshall

Unabridged: 8 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics.

The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It came to its bloody conclusion in Kosovo in 1999.

Tim Marshall, then diplomatic editor at Sky News, was on the ground covering the Kosovo War. This is his illuminating account of how events unfolded, a thrilling journalistic memoir drawing on personal experience, eyewitness accounts, and interviews with intelligence officials from five countries.

Twenty years on from the war's end, with the rise of Russian power, a weakened NATO and stalled EU expansion, this story is more relevant than ever, as questions remain about the possibility of conflict on European soil. Utterly gripping, this is Tim Marshall at his very best: behind the lines, under fire and full of the insight that has made him one of Britain's foremost writers on geopolitics.

About Tim Marshall

Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than thirty years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News and before that worked for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from forty countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. He is the author of Prisoners of Geography, The Age of Walls, A Flag Worth Dying For, The Power of Geography, and The Future of Geography.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Annikky on July 31, 2019

3+ In hindsight, this was probably not the right place to start my grand Getting to Know the Balkans Better project - it very much focuses on the Kosovo War and doesn’t provide much context. It is also a personal account, which makes the structure somewhat messy, but also results in a very readable......more

Goodreads review by razlaz9000 on May 02, 2020

Only for the insiders: Oh, the memories of being bombed when you’re 14! I remember how deeply hurt I was when I realized the miserable war-zone country on everyone’s TV’s is my country now. Tim was the face of that - I vividly remember watching Sky news on satellite on the first night of bombing, try......more

Goodreads review by Mark on July 02, 2019

A somewhat cheeky republished book (originally written in 2002), no doubt to capitalise on Marshall's success with his recent geo-political work. It is however a decent read. If you're looking for an overview of the who/what/why of the Balkans War this probably isn't the book for you, however, if yo......more

Goodreads review by Jack on March 29, 2020

At first I found this a difficult book to break into, as you're thrown right in at the end of the late 1990s after the breakup of Yugoslavia and at the dawn of the Kosovo War, with very little context for how you're there or what has happened, or who the major players are. Context is limited and dri......more

Goodreads review by Ľuboš on May 16, 2023

Po knihe V zajatí geografie ide o moju druhú knihu od autora Tima Marshalla a celkovo štvrtú knihu zo série Civilizácia. Po dobrých skúsenostiach s týmito knihami som sa na Tieňohru dosť tešil. Navyše, o udalostiach z prelomu tisícročia, kedy došlo k rozpadu Juhoslávie, nemám veľa vedomostí, takže m......more

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