WikiLeaks by The Guardian

WikiLeaks by The Guardian

It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Was he an internet messiah or a cyber-terrorist? Information freedom fighter or sex criminal? The debate would echo around the globe as US politicians called for his assassination. Award-winning "Guardian" journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding have been at the centre of a unique publishing drama that involved the release of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables and classified files from the Afghan and Iraq wars. At one point the platinum-haired hacker was hiding from the CIA in David Leigh's London house. Now, together with the paper's investigative reporting team, Leigh and Harding reveal the startling inside story of the man and the leak.

"A behind-the-scenes adrenalin rush of secret meetings, encrypted websites [and] passwords written on hotel napkins" Metro "[A] very detailed, highly readable and, yes, rather racy volumeIt is a fascinating and forensic analysis" Tribune "This pair of Guardian journalists provide excellent detail about the mechanics of the Wikileaks operation" -- Books Of The Year: Politics Sunday Times Culture

WikiLeaks has been written by a team of top Guardian journalists, led by David Leigh, the paper's investigations editor whose work was behind the jailing of Jonathan Aitken and the exposure of secret payments by arms company BAE, and Luke Harding, the paper's Moscow correspondent.

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ISBN 13	9780852652398
ISBN 10	0852652399
Title	WikiLeaks
Author	The Guardian
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Guardian Books
Year published	2011-02-01
Number of pages	352
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