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How Tyrants Fall : And How Nations Survive, Hardback Book

How Tyrants Fall : And How Nations Survive Hardback

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Strongmen are rising. Democracies are faltering. How does tyranny end?Tyrants project invincibility, but all of them fall.

This is because they face critical weaknesses that can form a fatal trap.

Whether it's their inner circle turning against them or resentment of elites in the military, the masses alienated by cronyism or revolutionaries plotting in exile, tyrants always have more enemies than friends. And when they fall tyrants don't quietly retire - they face exile, prison or death.

What happens in the aftermath can change the fate of a nation. Meeting with a revolutionary (codename 'Satan') who risked Stasi capture to undermine an oppressive regime, an American-Gambian activist who plotted to liberate his homeland on breaks during his construction job and the unapologetic former leader of a Burundian rebel group which carried out a massacre, internationally renowned security expert and political scientist Dr Marcel Dirsus draws on extensive field research and personal interviews with coup leaders, rebels and soldiers to examine the workings and malfunctions of tyrants.

But understanding dictators isn't enough. How Tyrants Fall is the gripping, deeply researched blueprint for how to bring them down.

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