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About this book
Published to coincide with the forthcoming film,
The Fifth Estate, starring Beneditct Cumberbatch, this tie-in edition contains two new chapters on Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, and a foreword by Alan Rusbridger.
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 echoed around the globe as US politicians called for his assassination.
And Assange's actions continue to be felt, in the trial of Bradley Manning and the flight of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower.
Award-winning
Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding were 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, and bring the story dramatically up to date.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- CONTENTS
- CAST OF CHARACTERS
- INTRODUCTION: Alan Rusbridger
- CHAPTER 1: The Hunt
- CHAPTER 2: Bradley Manning
- CHAPTER 3: Julian Assange
- CHAPTER 4: The rise of WikiLeaks
- CHAPTER 5: The Apache video
- CHAPTER 6: The Lamo dialogues
- CHAPTER 7: The deal
- CHAPTER 8: In the bunker
- CHAPTER 9: The Afghanistan war logs
- CHAPTER 10: The Iraq war logs
- CHAPTER 11: The cables
- CHAPTER 12: The world’s most famous man
- CHAPTER 13: Uneasy partners
- CHAPTER 14: Before the deluge
- CHAPTER 15: Publication day
- CHAPTER 16: The biggest leak in history
- CHAPTER 17: The ballad of Wandsworth jail
- CHAPTER 18: The future of WikiLeaks
- CHAPTER 19: The Simon Bolivar of SW1
- CHAPTER 20: The court martial
- EPILOGUE: Top secret
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INDEX
- About the Authors
- Copyright