covered wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. Between 2007 and 2011, he was the Guardian’s Moscow bureau chief. In February 2011, the Kremlin deported him from the country in the first case of its kind since the Cold War. He is the author of several books, including Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia's Remaking of the West and Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win.
In 2018 he tagged five "books [that] take you inside the closed world of espionage," including:
When it came to surveillance, one friendly Warsaw Pact agency outdid even the KGB: the Stasi. The world of East Germany’s secretRead about the other entries on the list.police is vividly evoked in Anna Funder’s Stasiland, written more than a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She meets elderly unrepentant former Stasi officers, and their victims. Why did so many in the GDR became informers? The answer, one Stasi man tells her, was because they enjoyed being “somebody”.
Stasiland is among Olivia Giovetti's seven acclaimed books about and from East Germany, Hester Vaizey's five top books on modern Germany history, and Steve Kettmann's ten best books on Germans and Germany.
--Marshal Zeringue
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