Warner Group -the- - Inside Russia's Mercenary Army

"This book exposes the history and the future of the Wagner Group, Russia s notorious and secretive mercenary army, revealing details of their operations never documented before. Using extensive leaks, first-hand accounts, and the byzantine paper trail left in the group s wake, Jack Margolin traces the Wagner Group from its roots as a thousands strong that eventually comes to threaten Putin himself. He follows individual commanders and foot soldiers within the group as they fight in Ukraine, Syria, and Africa, sometimes alongside fellow military contractors from the United Kingdom and the United States. He shows Wagner mercenaries committing atrocities, plundering oil, diamonds, and gold, and changing the course of conflicts from Europe to Africa in the name of the Kremlin's strategic aims. In documenting the Wagner Group s Prigozhin, Margolin demonstrates that Wagner was not an aberration, but a manifestation of the new geopolitical order of global capital, global crime, and of the entrepreneurs that thrive in it."--

About the author

Jack Margolin is an independent researcher who has studied private military contractors and Russian criminal networks since 2014. His investigations have been cited by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Economist, the Financial Times, and Politico. He lives in Washington, DC.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Margolin
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2024
• EAN: 9781789149579
• ISBN: 978-1-78914-957-9
• No. of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Russia, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, military history, International Relations, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Mercenaries, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet