WikiLeaks

In 2006, a website was born that would decree the end of state secrets and shake the world order. Four years later, WikiLeaks is at the center of a plot involving secret documents, espionage, sexual accusations, and controversy. For the first time, the behind-the-scenes nature of this information network that upended international politics is revealed in the book *Wikileaks: Julian Assange's War on State Secrets*. Written by the investigative team of the British newspaper The Guardian, the book concisely reveals a previously fragmented story. Led by investigative editor David Leigh, reporters Luke Harging, the newspaper's Moscow correspondent, and Ed Pilkington, its New York correspondent, were at the center of coverage of the largest leak of classified information in history. They had unprecedented access to the story's key players, from diplomats and politicians to former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg and Julian Assange himself. The result is a work that examines in depth the culture of the internet and what made possible the revelation of classified information – such as the civil executions in Kenya in 2008 and the countless diplomatic cables from the United States – through the bold work of the hackers who make up the WikiLeaks base. The authors also analyze the implications of the most recent WikiLeaks revelations and reveal the strange and contradictory nature of Julian Assange – a man praised by Amnesty International in 2009, but who, less than a year later, would be accused by Swedish police of sexual crimes. Wikileaks: Julian Assange's War on State Secrets follows the site's philosophy of ending the era of secrecy. Readers will be able to follow this unfolding plot from the front row.