Douglas Farah Livres

What do the Taliban, Liberian war criminal Charles Taylor, and the U.S. government have in common? They have all done business with the man who put the "blood" in blood diamonds--an immensely wealthy and powerful arms dealer who has flooded Africa and Southwest Asia with weapons of war. Here, two respected journalists tell the story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global network has changed the way modern warfare is fought. Bout's vast enterprise of guns, planes and money has fueled slaughter in Africa and aided both militant Islamic fanatics in Afghanistan and the American military in Iraq. As the Cold War ended, Bout emerged from a murky post-Soviet intelligence background and quietly amassed a fleet of Russian cargo planes, then began to forge an empire of lethal alliances across the Third World--a war machine able to deliver anything from AK-47s to attack helicopters, to anyone willing to pay.--From publisher description.

In the days of sailing ships, the waters off Britain's south-western coast were among the most treacherous in the world with tidal currents, submerged rocks, storms and murky depths. Thousands of ships were lost there over the centuries. From Cornwall and the remote Isles of Scilly, four generations of the Gibson family documented these shipwrecks in photographs, creating a unique archive of an era when seafaring meant risking one's life. This magnificent book is the largest ever created on the outstanding collection of pictures of the Gibson Family, with almost 100 exceptional images presented as never before alongside text by Carl Douglas Björn Hagberg. The result is a work that conveys mankind's struggle against the elements - and the extraordinary efforts to save lives. This book is published in co-operation with the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, that holds the unique Gibson collection.

This magnificent large-format illustrated book takes you down to the most spectacular wrecks in the Baltic Sea. This unique sea holds close toere are nearly 100,000 wrecks on the seabed here – many of them in surprisingly well keptgood condition. The unique qualities of the Baltic, with its cold water and the historic lack of shipworms, has help to preserved the shipwrecks better than anywhere else in the world – thus. This makes the Baltic Sea provides an enthralling irresistible treasure chest trove for divers. There are warships dating from the 17th century, magnificent wooden ships from the 18th century, cargo ships from the 19th century and warships from the Second World War. On board these sunken ships, time has stood still on board these sunken ships frozen – it often feels as if the crew has only just left the vessel. The wrecks have become like time capsules, a spooky mixture of serene beauty and haunting reminders of many a brutal dramas. These amazing images of the ghost ships of the Baltic have attracted global attention. This is the first time they have been reproduced in a large format. and appear in this book reproduced really large for the first time.

Is democracy in danger in the Dominican Republic? Is the country headed toward sustained one-party rule? In an effort to understand the state of Dominican democracy and rule of law, CSIS Americas Program director Carl Meacham led a six-month initiative to answer these questions.

This study examines different forms of alternative governance in the absence of a strong state presence in the Northern Triangle of Central America-along part of the Guatemala-Honduras border-a region notorious for its soaring homicide rates, corruption, violence, and emigration to the United States.

Abandon Ship is a dramatic, tempestuous, glorious journey through art history. Spectacular paintings have transformed shipwrecks into powerful metaphors for human vulnerability. These works depict fear and bravery, hope and desperation, life and death - and people's struggle against immense danger. Rocky coastlines and gales could reduce human ambitions to splinters. The sea has always held a special fascination. It carried people to new continents and enabled trade and progress. But the sea, dark and stormy, also represented a threat to human life. This magnificent book takes the reader on a journey spanning several centuries, from medieval mythical disasters via Romantic tragedies to shipwrecks in the contemporary realist era. The paintings presented in the book are from many of the finest museums in the world, among them the Louvre in Paris, the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, the National Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The introduction is written by Christine Riding, head of the curatorial department at London's National Gallery.

Dieser Bildband mit atemberaubenden großformatigen Fotos eröffnet uns eine Welt, die bisher nur wenigen Menschen zugänglich war. Die Ostsee birgt fast 100.000 Wracks und viele von ihnen sind erstaunlich gut erhalten. Das kalte Wasser und die fehlende Schiffsbohrmuschel haben die Schiffe so gut konserviert wie sonst nirgendwo auf der Welt, was die Ostsee zu einer wahren Schatztruhe für Taucher, Archäologen und Historiker macht. Eine Zeitreise auf den Grund der Ostsee In grün schimmernden Tiefen ragen plötzlich die Überreste auf von Frachtern, Dampfern, U-Booten und Kriegsschiffen aus allen Epochen, vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg. An Bord scheint die Zeit stillzustehen, als hätte die Crew das Schiff gerade erst verlassen. Wie Zeitkapseln zeugen die Wracks von längst vergangenen Welten und erzeugen eine gespenstische Mischung aus unheimlicher Schönheit und eindringlicher Erinnerung. Nach großem Erfolg in Schweden und England jetzt erstmals auf Deutsch!

Die renommierten Journalisten Douglas Farah und Stephen Braun erzählen in ihrem Buch die unglaubliche Geschichte von Victor Bout, dem russischen Waffenhändler, dessen weltweites Netzwerk die Kriege der modernen Welt maßgeblich beeinflusst und gesteuert hat. Sein gigantisches Imperium, bestehend aus Waffen, Flugzeugen und unglaublichen Mengen von Geld, bildete die Basis für die Völkermorde in Afrika und hat sowohl islamistische Fundamentalisten in Afghanistan als auch das amerikanische Militär im Irak beliefert. Farah und Braun zeigen, wie Bout lange Zeit erfolgreich jeden Versuch eines Eingriffs in sein Unternehmen abgewehrt und es zu immer größerem Erfolg geführt hat. Lange haben ihn die Geheimdienste der Welt vergeblich gejagt, bis er 2008 in Thailand verhaftet werden konnte. Dieses Buch beleuchtet die Hintergründe einer tödlichen Industrie, in der Victor Bout ein nahezu perfektes Unternehmen betrieb, inklusive der Ereignisse, die sich bis zu seinem Prozess im Herbst 2011 abgespielt haben.