Putin is now considered by Forbes as the world's greatest politician. Who really is Vladimir Putin, Russia's president or prime minister in alternating rounds? How was it possible for a KGB employee in eastern Germany to create a career that paved the way right up to the Russian Federation's highest service positions? The Russian-born author and military historian Vera Efron has now lifted a large number of stones and can show how a determined and ruthlessly career hungry power man can reach the very top. She portrays how Putin has cleverly been able to exploit political conditions, creating...