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Victory

By: Peter Schweizer
Narrated by: Ian Esmo
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Based on exclusive interviews with key participants, including Caspar Weinberger, George Schultz, John Poindexter, Robert McFarlane, and William Clark, Victory chronicles why and how Ronald Reagan helped to bring down the Soviet Union.

In this explosive book, Peter Schweizer provides the riveting details of how the Reagan inner circle undermined the Soviet economy and its dwindling resource base and subverted the Kremlin's hold on its global empire. Using secret diplomacy, the administration dramatically reduced Soviet income while at the same time driving Moscow to expend an increasing amount of precious assets. On another level, there was an American initiative to provide covert aid to indigenous forces in Poland and Afghanistan to roll back Soviet power. Schweizer's compelling and convincing argument on the Reagan administration's calculated strategy is impossible to ignore.

©1994 Peter Scheizer; (P)1997 Blackstone Audiobooks International Relations Politics & Government Soviet Union Russia War Middle East Imperialism United States Socialism Military Americas World History
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"[A] convincing, startling expose that reads like a spy thriller." (Publishers Weekly)

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This is a balanced analysis from a variety of sources, including Soviet, Afghan, Middle Eastern and European voices. Too often, historians and journalists from Europe in particular, want to diminish Reagan’s 50% share of the credit for winning the Cold War.

Well Researched and Balanced

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Victory is an extraordinary story. It seems to be incredibly well researched and documented. It maintains a compelling narrative and it is very well read. It was a wonderful eye opener for a die hard liberal who hated Reagan.

Amazing "Victory"

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I learned lot listening to this book. I just never knew all of the different ways that Reagan and the US pressured the Soviet Union in the 80's.

Interesting history

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Give this a listen because history always repeats itself
They should have got a better narrator

History repeats

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You For most of my early years the end of the Cold War was nowhere in sight. There were many peripheral battles which were considerably more than scrimmages. eg. Korea and Vietnam. Indeed the Cold War was a series of hot wars until economic war fare matured. This is the story of how it was done.
Although I lived through the time and was alert to the daily news I missed many of the nuances that are well explained in this book. The available of sources and writing skill of the author have provided a highly entertaining read. I strongly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn about what they think they already know,
"The biggest barrier to learning is believing that you already know the answer." This book helped me through that phase of ignorance about this important subject of modern history.

Winning a war without bloodshed!

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