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Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire
- The Inside Story of Europe's Last War
- Narrated by: Tim Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics.
The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It came to its bloody conclusion in Kosovo in 1999.
Tim Marshall, then diplomatic editor at Sky News, was on the ground covering the Kosovo War. This is his illuminating account of how events unfolded, a thrilling journalistic memoir drawing on personal experience, eyewitness accounts, and interviews with intelligence officials from five countries.
Twenty years on from the war's end, with the rise of Russian power, a weakened NATO and stalled EU expansion, this story is more relevant than ever, as questions remain about the possibility of conflict on European soil. Utterly gripping, this is Tim Marshall at his very best: behind the lines, under fire, and full of the insight that has made him one of Britain's foremost writers on geopolitics.
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- Mr. S. M. Howard
- 25-02-22
Excellent. I always wondered what really happened
And now I know. well put together and very informative. good pace and kept me interested
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- B. Novak
- 10-04-22
Well done Tim
Good overview. It was a pleasure listening. Greetings from a Serbian expat in China
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- Korbin Collins
- 22-09-23
Great
Great story about the kosovo serb war. Authors writing and performance speaking is very engaging
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- DW2000q
- 01-12-19
Edge of your seat tension with a very human angle
I love that Tim Marshall's actual voice is the one taking listeners back to this compelling time in history. If you're fascinated by Balkan history and if you work, live, go to school alongside Serbian, Kosovar Albanians, Macedonians, and Croats, you must listen to/read this book to understand their story and what they've been through historically. It's a fantastic book. I was a young woman during the break-up of Yugoslavia and its 'civil war' as we referred to it. My prom date in high school was a Croatian Yugoslavian who was returning to fight. I recall vividly how suddenly, my Yugoslavian friends dispersed as they became solely Serbs and Croats (the two predominant cultures in my local Californian community) and no longer spoke to one another or ate at the same lunch tables. This was 6400 miles away from the bombs and the unravelling of this region, steeped in pride, bad blood, and old traditions, held together for a short time by that binding but fragile notion of 'being Yugoslavian'. How easily and violently that ideal broke apart. There were so many moments during my listen to Shadowplay where I literally let out small gasps, so taken in was I by the various stories, gripping situations, and especially by Tim Marshall's delivery of his experiences as a journalist on the ground during the bombing campaigns. Gripping doesn't begin to describe it! I really appreciated the friendships he formed in this fraught region. Everyone he encounters is a real character. I found myself worrying about the fate of every friend Tim encountered. And you get the sense that, despite the trauma and the fear, a real sense of brotherhood saw Tim and his wingmen through this trial by fire. You are made acutely aware that many civilians did not get to celebrate the end of such dark days.
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- Dave
- 30-01-22
Highly recommended
Tim Marshall gives a very good account of his experience of working as a journalist during the Kosovo war.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-08-22
More about the journalist than the wars
Alot of self praise and self congratulation. Little or no details about the war itself. The journal of a man on holiday in a war zone. The narrator sounded like he was eating and swallowing the whole way through. A couple of interesting points here and there but mostly disappointing and not what I was expecting.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-09-20
Top tier!
Tim's voice and way of talking makes this book go from great to amazing. I loved every minute.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-08-22
wonderful
This book is not only report of events before, during and after the long lasting war in Yugoslavia; it is also about memories. For a journalist to see war crimes, feel them and live in a war zone must be hard and I believe will for always mark him.
I knew about this war and how some politicians ended up in front of the Hague and eventually in jail, however, it is strange that NATO Generals, UK, Germany, USA decision makers involved in the death of civilians never answered and we're never prosecuted.
This book is good for anyone looking to know in details what was happening during those time in Serbia and during the war and collapse of Yugoslavia.
The narration was great and had sometimes few more words of information than what was written in the book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-10-22
Exceptional!
Exceptionally well balanced in terms of intimate detail and geopolitical context. Told in a sensitive but good-humoured way. Very hard to do and perfectly executed!
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- Anonymous User
- 23-09-22
Not Tim’s best
The book contains too little facts and analysis and a lot of the authors personal experiences. The author tries to be entertaining but fails. Still there are some relevant accounts of the Kosovo crisis in 1999.
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