Book description
'Vivid... Shocking... [Miller] brings a seasoned, personal perspective to his account of both the 16-month conflict and its wider roots.' Daily Telegraph 'A beautiful blend of memoir, reportage and history...superb.' Irish Times A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine's past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of the war against Russia,…
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1 author picked The War Came To Us as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I am of Ukrainian heritage, and this current war has brought back a grieving that I didn’t know I had.
You see, I don’t even have relatives to mourn or worry about in Ukraine anymore because all my family was killed by the last genocidal dictator. Instead, I worry about every Ukrainian. Sometimes, just walking down the street, I begin to weep. I cannot get my head around the fact that this is all happening again.
This war has generated a ton of crap published by so-called pundits. This book is not that.
Christopher Miller is an American who arrived…
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