THE LITVINENKO FILE: The True Story of a Death Foretold
Martin Sixsmith
Sold by Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 11 January 2000
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Near fine
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Add to basketSold by Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 11 January 2000
Condition: Used - Near fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFirst impression of the true first edition, with a full number-string sequence on the publisher's prelims copyright page including the no. "1": 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. Illustrated with black and white photographs. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Very slight light foxing to edges of text-block not affecting interior pages. No inscriptions. Boards clean. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of £16.99. No tears. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. 242mm x 160mm. viii prelim-pages plus 312 pages including select bibliography, notes and index to rear. ***'Martin Sixsmith draws on his long experience as the BBC's Moscow correspondent, and contact with the key London-based Russians, to dissect Alexander Litvinenko's murder. Myriad theories have been put forward since he died, but the story goes back to 2000 when hostilities were declared between the Kremlin and its political opponents. This is a war that has blown hot and cold for over six years: a war that has pitted some of Russia's strongest, richest men against the most powerful president Russia has had since Josef Stalin. But a war it most certainly is. a war that is beginning to revive some of the worst horrors of the old days of the KGB, and looks set to intensify in a bitter battle for the presidency in March 2008. ***The Litvinenko File is a gripping, powerful inside account of a shocking act of murder, when Russian's war with itself spilled over on the streets of London and made the world take notice.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
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On December 7th 2006, in a Highgate Cemetery drenched with London rain, a Russian was buried within a stone’s throw of the grave of Karl Marx. He was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the deep Russian provinces who rose through the ranks of the world’s most feared security service. Litvinenko was the man who denounced murder and corruption in the Russian government, fled from the wrath of the Kremlin, came to London and took the shilling of Moscow’s avowed enemy … Now he was a martyr, condemned by foes unknown to an agonised death in a hospital bed thousands of miles from home.
Martin Sixsmith draws on his long experience as the BBC’s Moscow correspondent, and contact with the key London-based Russians, to dissect Alexander Litvinenko’s murder. Myriad theories have been put forward since he died, but the story goes back to 2000 when hostilities were declared between the Kremlin and its political opponents. This is a war that has blown hot and cold for over six years; a war that has pitted some of Russia’s strongest, richest men against the most powerful president Russia has had since Josef Stalin.
The Litvinenko File is a gripping, powerful inside account of a shocking act of murder, when Russia’s war with itself spilled over onto the streets of London and made the world take notice.
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