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An utterly compelling account, deeply personal, persuasively authoritative, surely the must-read book for this challenging moment. -- Philippe Sands, author of East West Street

An utterly compelling account, deeply personal, persuasively authoritative, surely the must-read book for this challenging moment. -- Philippe Sands, author of East West Street The essential book about the Russia-Ukraine war-superb, accessible and erudite-by the world's chief expert. The must-read work. -- Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History For those trying to understand the roots of the war in Ukraine, there is no better guide than Serhii Plokhy. It's impossible to make sense of the Russian invasion of 2022 without knowing something of the history-recent and less recent-and the struggle for Ukrainian national identity; this compelling and lucid book illuminates both. -- Lindsey Hilsum, author of In Extremis Insightful.... Readers aiming to follow the fighting should read the daily news, but for a complete picture, this is the book. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

An utterly compelling account, deeply personal, persuasively authoritative, surely the must-read book for this challenging moment. -- Philippe Sands, author of East West Street Insightful.... Readers aiming to follow the fighting should read the daily news, but for a complete picture, this is the book. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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Serhii Plokhy, author of The Russo-Ukrainian War, Atoms and Ashes, and Nuclear Folly, is a professor of Ukrainian history and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. He is a leading authority on the history of the Cold War. He lives in Burlington, Massachusetts.

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