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From Warsaw with Love
- Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance
- De: John Pomfret
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
From the award-winning and acclaimed author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom, From Warsaw with Love tells the epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with the CIA in the twilight of the Cold War. In 1990, soon after the Polish people voted in their first democratic election since the 1930s, the young Polish government sent a veteran spy, who’d battled the West for decades, to rescue six American officers trapped in Baghdad.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and well researched
- De wac53 en 07-23-24
- From Warsaw with Love
- Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance
- De: John Pomfret
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
Spy Thriller++
Revisado: 10-31-21
Spy thriller as history? History as spy thriller? Either way Pomfret’s magnificent book “From Warsaw with Love” channels a satisfying blend of Ian Fleming and Bob Woodward to create a page turner that educates while it entertains. This meticulously researched story about pre-and-post-Cold-War Polish espionage - and its critical role in Poland’s perilous navigation from the Soviet to the American sphere of influence - does not disappoint.
The book covers a time period in Poland from 1977 to 2020, – from Brezhnev-era espionage in the late 1970s and the rise of Solidarity in Poland in the mid-1980s, through the epochal events in Eastern Europe of 1989, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Poland’s role in the American response, through the Clinton years, 9/11, and the disastrous second Iraq war, up to the present day ascendancy of right-wing ethno-nationalism in Poland, Russia and the USA. The heart of tale takes place during the pivotal years immediately before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, centering on the gripping rescue mission led by Polish spy Gromoslaw Czempinski (a real world James Bond) to extricate from Iraq six US officers with key military intelligence during the early days of Operation Desert Storm.
But “From Warsaw with Love” is much more than an edge-of-your-seat spy-vs-spy yarn – it recapitulates a key period of recent history from the realpolitik vantage point of the international intelligence community – deftly weaving together multiple stories of the spies and spy agencies in both the USA and Poland as they traverse the chaotic geopolitical vacuum created by the evaporation of the USSR, and the end of the Cold War stasis that had defined geopolitics for over forty years. What emerges is a picture not only of the collapse of the Soviet Union, but also the collapse of American statecraft absent a well-defined mission.
Donald Corren adroitly narrates this very human spy story that will keep you compulsively listening long into the wee hours of the morning.
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