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Author: Iuliia Mendel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.379kg
ISBN: 9781668012710
ISBN 10: 1668012715
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 27 October 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Iuliia Mendel's book reminds us that war is not only about machines and destruction--it is also about people and ideas. The Fight of Our Lives shows us how Ukraine's fight for freedom is our fight--humanity's fight against tyranny. --Ambassador Kurt Volker
By sharing her own story, Iuliia Mendel offers a powerful window into the soul of modern Ukraine. The Fight of Our Lives brings you inside a generation raised in transformation and provides vital context around Putin's war on Ukraine. Her journey and her nation's will move you and push you to learn more. -Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, New York Times bestselling author of The Daughters of Kobani Iuliia Mendel's book reminds us that war is not only about machines and destruction-it is also about people and ideas. The Fight of Our Lives shows us how Ukraine's fight for freedom is our fight-humanity's fight against tyranny. -Kurt Volker, former United States ambassador to NATO Who is Mr. Zelenskyy? Few people who write about the Ukrainian president and his surprising meteoric rise, first to the top of Ukrainian politics and then to the status of America's most popular foreign leader, know him as well as Iuliia Mendel. In this book she shares with the world her personal story as the first press secretary of Mr. Zelenskyy and the story of the president and the country he leads. This is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand Ukraine of today and the values it fights for. -Serhii Plokhy, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University, and author of The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine and Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters In earnest and perceptive prose, Mendel's The Fight of Our Lives tells the gripping story of Ukraine's determined coming-of-age amid the most ghastly of circumstances. -Marci Shore, associate professor of history at Yale University and author of The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution
Iuliia Mendel's book reminds us that war is not only about machines and destruction-it is also about people and ideas. The Fight of Our Lives shows us how Ukraine's fight for freedom is our fight-humanity's fight against tyranny. -Ambassador Kurt Volker
Author Information
Iuliia Mendel is a Ukrainian journalist who served as press secretary and spokesperson for Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, from 2019 until 2021. Mendel has more than fourteen years of journalism experience on TV and in print media and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, VICE, Politico Europe, and many more. Follow her on Twitter @IuliiaMendel. The Fight of Our Lives is her first book.
