The Descent : Witnessing Russia's Spiral into Madness Under Putin by Marc Bennetts essays scores of destroyers and smaller

scores of destroyers and smaller craft

its status looked under threat

A hugely enjoyable portrait of the horrors of renting' Sunday Times'A brilliant satire of London's horrific housing market

This is a book for James

There are few remaining frontiers on our planet

The Descent : Witnessing Russia's Spiral into Madness Under Putin by Marc Bennetts essays scores of destroyers and smallerAn extraordinary first hand account of Russias descent into totalitarianism, paranoia and madness. Marc Bennetts, foreign correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times, moved to Russia in the chaotic final years of President Yeltsin's rule. Twenty five years later, The Times pulled him out of Russia over concerns for his security following his arrest in Moscow at a protest against the war in Ukraine. From the wild 1990s in Moscow to narrowly