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Author Miller, Christopher (Journalist), author.

Title The war came to us : life and death in Ukraine / Christopher Miller.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2023.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  947.7086 MILLER    On Holdshelf
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Description xxv, 374 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents Part one: peace. American boy -- Friends -- A darker side of the Donbas -- Acts of journalism -- Part two: revolution and annexation. Euromaidan -- "Little green men" -- Voting under the gun -- Part three: war. "Russian spring" -- Stamps -- "Look at our republic" -- "Some fucking militia" -- Volunteer battalions -- "Live in a new way" -- "This is a war now" -- Executioners -- Fields of death -- The launch site -- "The first real Independence Day" -- The supply runner -- City of ghosts -- POWs -- The body collectors -- City of a million roses -- Left behind -- The woman in the grass -- The Cossack bomb squad -- PTSD -- Part four: full-scale invasion. Warning signs -- Servant of the people -- Keep calm and party on -- The battle of Kyiv -- Control the skies -- "Who would like some tea?" -- "Ya tut" -- Heroes -- Escape -- "It feels like I'm doing something wrong" -- The brothers Vyshyvaniy -- Savagery -- A storm on the horizon -- Trouble at sea -- Siege -- Filtration -- Summertime in the city -- The battle of the Donbas -- "The terrorists are destroying everything" -- Missiles -- "Fortress Bakhmut" -- "To peace" -- "I. Love. You."
Summary "A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine's past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of the war against Russia, written by the leading journalist of the conflict"-- Provided by publisher.
When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine just before dawn on 24 February 2022, it marked his latest and most overt attempt to brutally conquer the country, and reshaped the world order. Christopher Miller, the Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times and the foremost journalist covering the country, was there on the ground when the first Russian missiles struck and troops stormed over the border. But the seeds of Russia's war against Ukraine and the West were sown more than a decade earlier. This is the definitive, inside story of its long fight for freedom. Told through Miller's personal experiences, vivid front-line dispatches and illuminating interviews with unforgettable characters, The War Came To Us takes readers on a riveting journey through the key locales and pivotal events of Ukraine's modern history. From the coal-dusted, sunflower-covered steppe of the Donbas in the far east to the heart of the Euromaidan revolution camp in Kyiv; from the Black Sea shores of Crimea, where Russian troops stealthily annexed Ukraine's peninsula, to the bloody battlefields where Cossacks roamed before the Kremlin's warlords ruled with iron fists; and through the horror and destruction wrought by Russian forces in Bucha, Bakhmut, Mariupol, and beyond.
Subject Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022
Ukraine -- History -- 1991-2014
Miller, Christopher (Journalist) -- Travel -- Ukraine.
Ukraine. (OCoLC)fst01211738
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Ukraine Conflict (2014-) (OCoLC)fst01921502
Chronological Term Since 2014
Genre/Form Travel writing.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781399406857 (hardcover)
139940685X (hardcover)
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