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Andrew Feinstein has written an authoritative guide to the business of war. Chilling, heartbreaking and enraging (Arundhati Roy )
The nobility and justice of Feinstein's sentiments are indisputable. The arms trade is a loathsome commerce conducted by people who wear suits and occupy big boardroom tables, but should have trouble sleeping at night (Sunday Times )
The Shadow World peels back the veil of secrecy behind which the global arms trade undermines accountable democracy, socio-economic development and human rights, causing suffering across the world. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about justice, transparency and accountability in both the public and private spheres, and for anyone who believes that it is more important to invest in saving lives than in the machinery of death (Archbishop Desmond Tutu )
The Shadow World is the work of a knowledgeable, committed and angry activist . . . he has done a large service (Financial Times )
The nobility and justice of Feinstein's sentiments are indisputable. The arms trade is a loathsome commerce conducted by people who wear suits and occupy big boardroom tables, but should have trouble sleeping at night (Sunday Times )
The Shadow World peels back the veil of secrecy behind which the global arms trade undermines accountable democracy, socio-economic development and human rights, causing suffering across the world. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about justice, transparency and accountability in both the public and private spheres, and for anyone who believes that it is more important to invest in saving lives than in the machinery of death (Archbishop Desmond Tutu )
The Shadow World is the work of a knowledgeable, committed and angry activist . . . he has done a large service (Financial Times )
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Pulling back the curtain on the secretive world of the global arms trade, Andrew Feinstein reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind weapons deals ranging from the largest in history - between the British and Saudi governments - to BAE's controversial transactions in South Africa, Tanzania and eastern Europe, and the revolving-door relationships that characterise the US Congressional-Military-Industrial Complex. He exposes in forensic detail both the formal government-to-government trade in arms and the shadow world of illicit weapons dealing - and lays bare the shocking and inextricable links between the two.
The Shadow World places us in the midst of the arms trade's dramatic wheeling and dealing, ranging from corporate boardrooms to seedy out-of-the-way hotels via far-flung offshore havens, and reveals the profound danger this network represents to all of us.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
most thoroughly researched, the most up-to-date and the most significant book on the topic
24 Jan 2012
Format:Hardcover
I downloaded the audiobook but I will also get the paper copy because this one is worth keeping on the shelve once you have read it. This has to be the most thoroughly researched, the most up-to-date and the most significant book on the topic of the arms industry, I have read .. and, in fact, I am not aware of any other book so precise and so damming at the same time..
This book deserves a great deal more publicity than it has received to date .. I expect it will be widely quoted by future historians ....
This book deserves a great deal more publicity than it has received to date .. I expect it will be widely quoted by future historians ....
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Yes, scary stuff but why campaigners against the arms trade are amongst the most serious minded in our society. This bloody trade really does profit from murder and misery arouns the planet and one wonders whether they invented this revolting war on terror as some kind of marketing tool.
Seriously though this is the first book on this seamy topic since Anthony Sampson's The Arms Bazaar in the 1980s, so if you care about humanity, chldren, the rule of law etc. - get this and let it inform the rest of your life. I'm afraid the BBC are not interested in bringing these excessive horrors of capitalism to your attention as Paxman and his ilk lost their spine long long ago.
Seriously though this is the first book on this seamy topic since Anthony Sampson's The Arms Bazaar in the 1980s, so if you care about humanity, chldren, the rule of law etc. - get this and let it inform the rest of your life. I'm afraid the BBC are not interested in bringing these excessive horrors of capitalism to your attention as Paxman and his ilk lost their spine long long ago.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After Michael Klare's book on the scarce natural resources and the exploitation and Yergin's tomes Prize and Quest - this is a great work on the murky global arms trade - which was fueled and prolonged many an unwanted civil and regional conflict esp in the third world countries.
Its a sordid tale of immense greed ,corruption , lack of morals and collusion at the highest and unexpected government levels and amazingly the UK and US are in the forefront apart from the usual suspects from China/Russia/Israel which would probably need an entire book in itself.
Its always been a wonder why the rich Arab countries like the UAE needed such advanced weapon systems when they clearly faced neither the threat nor the capability - this exposes why .
A must read - the only other book on similar lines was the arms bazaar by Anthony Sampson in the late 70's which exposed Lockheed and other US companies in Japan
Its a sordid tale of immense greed ,corruption , lack of morals and collusion at the highest and unexpected government levels and amazingly the UK and US are in the forefront apart from the usual suspects from China/Russia/Israel which would probably need an entire book in itself.
Its always been a wonder why the rich Arab countries like the UAE needed such advanced weapon systems when they clearly faced neither the threat nor the capability - this exposes why .
A must read - the only other book on similar lines was the arms bazaar by Anthony Sampson in the late 70's which exposed Lockheed and other US companies in Japan
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