Martin Sixsmith Książki

W zimnym deszczu zacinającym 7 grudnia 2006 roku na londyńskim cmentarzu Highgate, o rzut kamieniem od grobu Karola Marksa, pochowano pewnego Rosjanina. Był nim Aleksander Litwinienko - chłopak z głębokiej prowincji, który zrobił błyskotliwą karierę w najstraszniejszej ze służb bezpieczeństwa. U szczytu powodzenia, ujawniwszy mroczne sekrety Kremla, schronił się w Londynie i zaciągnął na służbę u zaprzysięgłego wroga Moskwy... A teraz, zamordowany przez nieuchwytnych sprawców, został pogrzebany tysiące mil od domu. Na temat sprawy Litwinienki stworzono niezliczone teorie, ale tak naprawdę zaczęła się w 2000 roku, kiedy to najsilniejszy przywódca, jakiego miała Rosja od czasów Stalina, wypowiedział wojnę swym możnym politycznym przeciwnikom. Ze zmiennym natężeniem trwa ona już ponad sześć lat. Sprawia, że odżywają najgorsze metody KGB, a jej eskalacji należy się spodziewać podczas zajadłej walki o prezydenturę w marcu 2008 roku. Martin Sixsmith urodził się w 1954 roku w Cheshire. Studiował w Oxfordzie, na Harvardzie i Sorbonie. W latach 1980-1997 był korespondentem BBC w Moskwie, Waszyngtonie, Brukseli oraz Warszawie. Od 1997 do 2002 roku pracował dla brytyjskiego rządu jako specjalista od public relations. Obecnie jest pisarzem, prezenterem i dziennikarzem. Autor Moscow Coup: The Death of the Soviet System oraz dwóch powieści, Spin i I Heard Lenin Laugh.

Bursting with the real-life drama of love in turbulent times, An Unquiet Heart is a magnificently wrought novel of passion and violence, triumph and tragedy.

During the darkest days of WW2, in her home country of Holland, Anna-Maria van der Vaart sheltered Allied pilots, gave refuge to persecuted Jews and stood up to the Nazis by participating in audacious acts of resistance. This is Anna- Maria’s remarkable story alongside those who risked their lives to save others.

A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it.

An original and informative look at the character of Russian leaders throughout history and why they think so differently to the rest of the world. Martin Sixsmith, acknowledged expert on Russia, history and politics argues that it is impossible to understand Vladimir Putin unless he is seen in the wider context of Russian history. All the forces that condition Putin's behaviour, his attitude to the outside world, his desire for political domination and his unrelenting brutality can be traced from Muscovy, Boris Godunov, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Stalin and right up to the present day. In other words, there is a mindset, the psyche of Russian dictators which has changed little since early days. The terror of encirclement and of invasion by outsiders. Obsessive cruelty and wilful lack of concern for the loss of human life - Stalin sacrificed the lives of millions of Russians to drive back Hitler's troops. A complete lack of concern for what outsiders may think of Russia. The sanctification of the concept of Holy Russia, Mother Russia where the Russian Orthodox Church is too often manipulated by the State to condone the mindless butchery of human beings in the pursuit of an end and purpose which it justified. Nowhere are these factors more obvious than in the present Russian invasion of Ukraine, which thanks to this book, we will understand a great deal better.

Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist', with an ingrained eagerness to sacrifice the individual for the collectivist cause.

This title investigates Vladimir Putin's war for control of Russia's vast oil reserves, in particular Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil firm, Yukos. "Putin's Oil" investigates the complex world of Kremlin politics, including conspiracies and conspiracy theories, allegations that Roman Abramovitch plotted with Putin to destroy Khodorkovsky, suspicions of betrayal and double agents in the Kremlin and in Yukos, murder charges against Khodorkovsky's partners, and the KGB defector who claims they were carried out by Kremlin agents. After the mysterious death in a helicopter crash of the Englishman who had taken over Yukos, the company's war against the Kremlin is now being waged by a troika of mild mannered Britons, pursued by Interpol arrest warrants and Moscow's fury. Khodorkovsky remains in a penal camp in far Eastern Siberia. Martin Sixsmith, former BBC Moscow Correspondent, has gained unprecedented access to many of the players in the drama. The resulting book is both a thriller and an analysis of the defining moments of Putin's presidency and their ongoing impact in Russian and world politics.

"When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman." Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Philomena's son was trying to find her. Renamed Michael Hess, he had become a leading lawyer in the first Bush administration, and he struggled to hide secrets that would jeopardize his career in the Republican Party and endanger his quest to find his mother. A gripping exposâe told with novelistic intrigue, Philomena pulls back the curtain on the role of the Catholic Church in forced adoptions and on the love between a mother and son who endured a lifelong separation."--