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London England: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. Almost the moment of his birth in Galway in 1856, Frank Harris was surrounded by myth and exaggeration, very often perpetrated by himself, but also … Mehr…

London England: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. Almost the moment of his birth in Galway in 1856, Frank Harris was surrounded by myth and exaggeration, very often perpetrated by himself, but also embroidered by detractors and fanatical supporter, James Thomas, as he was christened, suffered from a withdrawn, puritanical, insensitive father and his notorious sexual adventures were partly an effort to get the love and praise that he lacked. He could not live without the reassurance and excitement of constant affairs. It is as a sexual athlete and liar that posterity has classed him. The author in her deeply researched and compulsive biography shows that this was only one facet of a diverse and richly layered personality. He was a reformer, traveller, interviewer and financial intriguer; a loyal friend, risking his reputation to support Oscar Wilde, obsessed totally with his wife Nellie, a catalyst of young writers. Almost single-handed, it seems, he set himself to destroy the self-satisfaction and hypocrisy of Victorian and Edwardian England, only to see his own political ambitions shattered. He had a magentic personality and his life which ecompassed a span of great change was full of adventures and misadventures. His character was crucially divided, the one side melancholy and private, the other the flamboyant performer the world knows. He was always his worst enemy. In the end he progressed from the role of the pantaloon to that of a genuine tragic figure. Slight shelf wear to D/J. Sunned spine.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback., Hamish Hamilton, 1975, 3.75, UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn thus.[Previously published by same publisher, 1994 and the true 1st edn,so this edn 1st thus.] FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten,black ink signature+dedication: 'For William,for your 12th birthday,wishing you a happy one! Michael Morpurgo',to ffe.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial artwork by Michael Foreman illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright,clean and unmarked,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Dw/dj design repeated to glossy laminated bds (boards) with red headband and immaculate plain blue eps (endpapers) - front free ednpaper author SIGNED+dedicated.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn thus, 7-143pp [paginated] includes 11 chapters,17 full-page,full-colour illus,6 part-page and 2 double-page,part-page illus throughout the text and the book,all by Michael Foreman,and colour pictorial lozenged chapter head-pieces; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title page,full-page,full-colour frntis and contents list/table. The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table has fired the imagination of young and old for centuries.It is the ultimate tale of chivalry and romance,of evil and magic,and of betrayal and revenge.In 'Arthur,High King of Britain' Michael Morpurgo has met the challenge of superbly retelling this great story as it has never been told before. It begins in our own century,when a half-drowned boy regains consciousness in a strange sea-cave.The white-bearded man who saved his life introduces himself as Arthur Pendragon,High King of Britain.He says that he has lived close to this rugged seascape with his faithful deerhound Bercelet for fourteen hundred years - 'beyond the reach of time'.As the boy recovers,Arthur begins his story. Adopted as a baby and brought up in Wales,Arthur is told by Merlin the magician that he is not only of royal blood but also the rightful king of Britain,an astonishing fact confirmed when Arthur passes the supreme test of pulling the sword from the stone.Trained in the arts of kingship by Merlin,and presented with the great sword Excalibur by the Lady of the Lake,Arthur sets out to rid the country of cruelty and tyranny and to drive back the Saxon invaders.To his court at Camelot come the finest knights in the kingdom to serve his noble cause,and the beautiful Guinevere to be his queen.The courageous and chivalrous deeds of Sir Launcelot,Sir Gawain and Sir Percivale,as well as the sad story of the doomed lovers Tristram and Iseult,are poignantly retold by the once great king.Nothing is sadder,however,than Arthur's own story.Tricked into infidelity by the evil power of his half-sister Morgana Le Fey,he brings up a child, Mordred,who is to become a deadly enemy. Worse,the tragic love affair between Launcelot and Guinevere not only deprives him of the two people he loves most,but also,by dividing loyalties at Camelot,brings about the destruction of all he has created.Arthur's story is one of the great epics,and this compelling modern version,vividly illustrated by Michael Foreman,will enthral every reader. Michael Foreman,born Pakefield,Suffolk,1938. Studied at Lowestoft School of Art and at the Royal College of Art.Lecturer at St Martin's School of Art (1963-65), the London College of Printing (1967/8), the Royal College of Art (1968-70) and the Central School of Arts and Crafts (1972).Art Director of Playboy magazine,Chicago (1965) and the King Magazine,London (1966).Painter,etcher, illustrator and writer of children's books.His illustrative work is distinctive:he often works in colour or halftone,creating luminous effects with veils of thinly diluted pigment over delicate pencil outlines; in his etched illustrations,he uses soft ground techniques to achieve subtle tonal graduations.His imagery, ostensibly decorative,humorous or with a sometimes child-like appearance,often has menacing or bizarre overtones. Want more Michael MORPURGO titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my SIGNED and CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogues. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.PAVILION BOOKS LIMITED,1998., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,subjects' contemporary b/w portrait photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with red+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and some minimal creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Majority of creasing to front panel's lower edge and spine/backstrip of dw/dj inevitably but slightly sunned/faded.Top+fore-edges lightly aged but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-249pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,illus list/table,epigrams,preface,11 chapters and an epilogue,12pp contemporary b/w auto+biographical photographs in 3 different blocks interspersed throughout the text and the book,a biblio,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table and 6pp blanks at the rear. Mary Booker and Richard Hillary met in December 1941 and immediately fell in love.Mary was one of the most beautiful and gifted women of her generation: she was also twenty years older than Richard,who was recovering from the terrible injuries he had received as a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain.He had just written 'The Last Enemy',his memorable account of his life up to,including and after that traumatic experience, when his injuries were tended by the pioneer of plastic surgery,Archibald McIndoe.For a year,until,at 23,Hillary was killed in another crash,Mary and Richard were very close even when they were apart.Over thirty years later,Michael Burn - who married Mary in 1947,after his own release from wartime imprisonment in Germany - found their letters, lovingly preserved,while going through Mary's papers after her death. Burn has woven them into a compelling narrative of devotion,gaiety, depression,exhaustion and ecstasy.As he writes: 'A love affair between a young man and an older woman is a classic relationship . . .' But Mary and Richard were exceptional.Their letters set forth with clarity,wit and poetry the emotional condition of innumerable lovers.To these intensifications of what is usual add the disaster of Richard's death,and a story emerges which does not deserve to stay hidden in the boxroom. The book is written not only as a story,but as a deeply felt personal responsibility.It is a dedicated commemoration of his wife,and a vindication of Hillary,to whose death it provides the true background, hitherto obscured by the fantasies of Arthur Koestler,Middleton Murry and others.It is a luminous document,profoundly moving and brilliantly told. [Richard Hillary was born in Sydney,Australia,in 1919.He came to England after the last war,where his father,who was in the Australian Treasury.In 1931 he went to Shrewsbury,and in 1937 to Trinity College, Oxford.He was at Oxford when the war broke out and,with other members of the Oxford R.A.F.V.R.,was immediately called to duty.He was one of the first pilots to be shot down in the Battle of Britain.Trapped in the blazing cockpit of his machine,he managed to struggle free and baled out,being picked up from the sea by a lifeboat and taken to Margate Hospital suffering from shock and severe burns.Then began a long period of surgical operations and convalescence interrupted by further operations.It was during this period that 'The Last Enemy' was written.As soon as he had recovered sufficiently to use his hands,he did not rest from badgering the authorities until he had been allowed to return to operational flying.He was killed on active service on January 7,1943. Adjudged a literary classic of the Battle of Britain.The title comes from "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death" 1 CORINTHIANS xv.26.] Since April 2013,and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.ANDRE DEUTSCH LIMITED,1988., 3, Paperback / softback. New. <b>If you fly like a nightbird into the Mekong Delta jungle near Saigon, you will find The Killing School. Required studies: Mind Control, Persuasion Techniques, Pharmaceutical Interventions. Those afraid of the darkness of humanity need not apply.</b><br /><br />In a CIA dark ops house of horrors, aka The Killing School, Ghost Soldier Jerry Prince aces every subject as the experimental model for elite future warriors. Programmed for killing efficiency, his stunning physical, emotional, and psychological transformation is the work of a brilliant scientist employed by the world's dirtiest diplomat, Ambassador Phillip Jordan.<br /><br />But when J.D. Mikel, the CIA's most valuable assassin, goes rogue, and internationally renowned war photographer Isabelle Chen is sucked into an affair where death, love, and The Killing School brutally intertwine, the race against time and the enemy within go far beyond the perils of a long bloody war speeding toward its cataclysmic end.<br /><br />Because when no one is who you think they are… When you don't even recognize yourself… Even the most innocent players can become part of something—UNSPEAKABLE.<br /><br />From the bestselling author of <i>Unbreakable: There Will Be Killing</i> and <i>Unknowable: Making A Killing</i> comes the shocking conclusion to the Murder on the Mekong Series of psychological thrillers.<br /><br /><b>Publisher's Note:</b> Readers should be prepared for death and graphic violence consistent with the true nature of the notorious Pheonix Program and the School of the Americas during the Vietnam war.<br /><i>Unspeakable: The Killing School</i> is a tightly woven psychological thriller that reflects the real-world experience and knowledge of veteran, author, and psychotherapist John Hart, creator of the Murder on the Mekong series.<br />Fans of <b>Jonathan Maberry, Thomas Harris, Maximilian Uriarte, Peter Straub,</b> and <b>L.T. Ryan</b> will not want to miss this riveting fiction series.<br /><br /><b>"A riveting journey into the perils of war and the darkness of the human heart."</b><i> –Tara Janzen, New York Times Bestselling author of the Steele Street series</i><br /><br /><b>Murder on the Mekong Series</b><br /><i>Unbreakable<br />Blindspot<br />Unknowable<br />Unspeakable</i><br /><br /><b>Meet the Authors:</b> Hart Rivers is the pen name for bestselling co-authors John L. Hart and Olivia Rupprecht. John, Creator of the Murder On The Mekong series, has been a practicing psychotherapist for over 40 years, starting in Vietnam where he was a psychology specialist. He received his doctorate from the University of Southern California, is an internationally respected lecturer, has been a consultant to the nation of Norway for their Fathering Project, and maintained a private practice in Los Angeles for twenty years. His time is divided between Hawaii--where he enjoys snorkeling, stand up paddle boarding, and is a featured artist at the Mauna Kea Hotel—and Vancouver Island, B.C., where he is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.<br /><br />Olivia is an award-winning author whose novels have sold worldwide, and Series Developer of True Vows, the groundbreaking series of reality-based novels from HCI Books. She lives in a historic tavern on a lake in Wisconsin.<br />, 6, New York: Vintage Books, 1990. Fifteenth Printing. Trade paperback. very good. 882, wraps, illus., maps, bibliography, notes, index, small crease to lower corner rear coverThis first volume of Caro's biography traces Johnson from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the U.S. Senate. Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, which was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. He has since written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002, 2012), a biography of the former president. He has been described as "the most influential biographer of the last century." For his biographies, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography, two National Book Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement), the Francis Parkman Prize (awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that "best exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist"), three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the Mencken Award for Best Book, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, the D. B. Hardeman Prize, and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010 President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal. The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president, no era of American politics, has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak. The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson's political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, of the national power for which he hungered. We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate, coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor in the service of his own ambition. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon, raised in one of the country's most desperately poor and isolated areas, his education mediocre at best, his pride stung by his father's slide into failure and financial ruin, lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate impossible goal that he sets for himself years before any friend or enemy suspects what it may be. We watch him, while still at college, instinctively (and ruthlessly) creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize (and sometimes almost enslave) useful subordinates. We see him carrying out, before his thirtieth year, his first great political inspiration: tapping-and becoming the political conduit for-the money and influence of the new oil men and contractors who were to grow with him to immense power. We follow, close up, the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable Mr. Sam Raybum (who loved him like a son and whom he betrayed) and with FDR himself. And we follow the dramas of his emotional life-the intensities and complications of his relationships with his family, his contemporaries, his girls; his wooing and winning of the shy Lady Bird; his secret love affair, over many years, with the mistress of one of his most ardent and generous supporters... Johnson driving his people to the point of exhausted tears, equally merciless with himself . . . Johnson bullying, cajoling, lying, yet inspiring an amazing loyalty . . . Johnson maneuvering to dethrone the unassailable old Jack Garner (then Vice President of the United States) as the New Deal's connection in Texas, and seize the power himself . . . Johnson raging . . . Johnson hugging . . . Johnson bringing light and, indeed, life to the worn Hill Country farmers and their old-at-thirty wives via the district's first electric lines. We see him at once unscrupulous, admirable, treacherous, devoted. And we see the country that bred him: the harshness and nauseating loneliness of the rural life; the tragic panorama of the Depression; the sudden glow of hope at the dawn of the Age of Roosevelt. And always, in the foreground, on the move, LBJ. Here is Lyndon Johnson, his Texas, his Washington, his America, in a book that brings us as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process., Vintage Books, 1990, 3, Hardback. New. <p><b>A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for</b> <b><i>The Wall Street Journal.</i></b><br /><br /></p><p><b>'Reads like a great novel' </b>SEBASTIAN JUNGER<br /><b>‘An instant classic’ </b>STEVE COLL<br /><b>'An essential first draft’ </b>ANNE APPLEBAUM<br /><b> ‘Essential reading’ </b>CLARISSA WARD<br /><b>‘Outstanding’ </b>PETER FRANKOPAN<br /><br />Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war’s decisive moments—from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut—to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against Russia in a modern-day battle of David and Goliath. <br /><br />Putin had intended to conquer Ukraine with a vicious blitzkrieg, in a few short weeks. But in the face of this existential threat, the Ukrainian people fought back, turning what looked like certain defeat into a great moral victory, even as the territorial battle continues to seesaw to this day. This is the story of their epic bravery in the face of almost unthinkable aggression.<br /><br />For Trofimov, this war is deeply personal. He grew up in Kyiv and his family has lived there for generations. He tells the story of how everyday Ukrainian citizens—doctors, computer programmers, businesspeople, and schoolteachers—risked their lives and lost loved ones. <br /><br />At once heart-breaking and inspiring, and combining vivid reportage with expert military analysis and rare insight into the thinking of Ukrainian leadership, <i>Our Enemies Will Vanish</i> tells the riveting story Ukraine’s fight for survival and refusal to surrender as it has never been told before.<br /><br />---------------------------------------<br /><br /><b>‘Achieves the highest level of war reporting: a tough, detailed account that nevertheless reads like a great novel. I did not really understand Ukraine until I read Trofimov's account’ </b><i>SEBASTIAN JUNGER, bestselling author of The Perfect Storm</i><br /><br /><b> ‘A stunning work of eyewitness reportage and literary nuance that brings alive both the brutalities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war’s small absurdities and comic interludes. An instant classic’</b> <i>STEVE COLL, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ghost Wars</i><br /><br /><b> ‘Extraordinarily brave reporting, exceptionally clear writing. An essential first draft of the history of the war’ </b><i>ANNE APPLEBAUM, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Twilight of Democracy</i><br /><br /><b> ‘A gripping read that meticulously lays out what’s at stake in Ukraine. Essential reading’ </b><i>CLARISSA WARD, author of On All Fronts</i><br /> <b><br /> ‘An essential document for our times’</b> <i>DEXTER FILKINS, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Forever War</i><br /><br /><b> ‘An outstanding, breath-taking and authoritative account’ </b><i>PETER FRANKOPAN, bestselling author of The Silk Roads</i><br /><br /><b> ‘Takes the reader from the corridors of power to frontline trenches. Trofimov’s gripping account is full of crisp details’ </b><i>QUENTIN SOMERVILLE, BBC Middle East Correspondent</i><br /></p>, 6<

2022, ISBN: 9780241655443

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs corresponde… Mehr…

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. 'Reads like a great novel' SEBASTIAN JUNGER ‘An instant classic’ STEVE COLL 'An essential first draft’ ANNE APPLEBAUM ‘Essential reading’ CLARISSA WARD ‘Outstanding’ PETER FRANKOPAN Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war’s decisive moments—from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut—to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against Russia in a modern-day battle of David and Goliath. Putin had intended to conquer Ukraine with a vicious blitzkrieg, in a few short weeks. But in the face of this existential threat, the Ukrainian people fought back, turning what looked like certain defeat into a great moral victory, even as the territorial battle continues to seesaw to this day. This is the story of their epic bravery in the face of almost unthinkable aggression. For Trofimov, this war is deeply personal. He grew up in Kyiv and his family has lived there for generations. He tells the story of how everyday Ukrainian citizens—doctors; computer programmers, businesspeople, and schoolteachers—risked their lives and lost loved ones. At once heart-breaking and inspiring, and combining vivid reportage with expert military analysis and rare insight into the thinking of Ukrainian leadership, Our Enemies Will Vanish tells the riveting story Ukraine’s fight for survival and refusal to surrender as it has never been told before. --------------------------------------- ‘Achieves the highest level of war reporting: a tough, detailed account that nevertheless reads like a great novel. I did not really understand Ukraine until I read Trofimov's account’ SEBASTIAN JUNGER, bestselling author of The Perfect Storm ‘A stunning work of eyewitness reportage and literary nuance that brings alive both the brutalities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war’s small absurdities and comic interludes. An instant classic’ STEVE COLL, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ghost Wars ‘Extraordinarily brave reporting, exceptionally clear writing. An essential first draft of the history of the war’ ANNE APPLEBAUM, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Twilight of Democracy ‘A gripping read that meticulously lays out what’s at stake in Ukraine. Essential reading’ CLARISSA WARD, author of On All Fronts ‘An essential document for our times’ DEXTER FILKINS, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Forever War ‘An outstanding, breath-taking and authoritative account’ PETER FRANKOPAN, bestselling author of The Silk Roads ‘Takes the reader from the corridors of power to frontline trenches. Trofimov’s gripping account is full of crisp details’ QUENTIN SOMERVILLE, BBC Middle East Correspondent Fremdsprachige Bücher 24.0 x 15.6 x 4.0 cm , Random House UK Ltd, Random House UK Ltd<

2024, ISBN: 9780241655443

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs corresponde… Mehr…

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent forThe Wall Street Journal.'Reads like a great novel' SEBASTIAN JUNGER‘An instant classic’ STEVE COLL'An essential first draft’ ANNE APPLEBAUM ‘Essential reading’ CLARISSA WARD‘Outstanding’ PETER FRANKOPANSince Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war’s decisive moments—from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut—to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against Russia in a modern-day battle of David and Goliath. Putin had intended to conquer Ukraine with a vicious blitzkrieg, in a few short weeks. But in the face of this existential threat, the Ukrainian people fought back, turning what looked like certain defeat into a great moral victory, even as the territorial battle continues to seesaw to this day. This is the story of their epic bravery in the face of almost unthinkable aggression.For Trofimov, this war is deeply personal. He grew up in Kyiv and his family has lived there for generations. He tells the story of how everyday Ukrainian citizens—doctors, computer programmers, businesspeople, and schoolteachers—risked their lives and lost loved ones. At once heart-breaking and inspiring, and combining vivid reportage with expert military analysis and rare insight into the thinking of Ukrainian leadership, Our Enemies Will Vanish tells the riveting story Ukraine’s fight for survival and refusal to surrender as it has never been told before.---------------------------------------‘Achieves the highest level of war reporting: a tough, detailed account that nevertheless reads like a great novel. I did not really understand Ukraine until I read Trofimov's account’ SEBASTIAN JUNGER, bestselling author of The Perfect Storm‘A stunning work of eyewitness reportage and literary nuance that brings alive both the brutalities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war’s small absurdities and comic interludes. An instant classic’STEVE COLL, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ghost Wars‘Extraordinarily brave reporting, exceptionally clear writing. An essential first draft of the history of the war’ ANNE APPLEBAUM, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Twilight of Democracy‘A gripping read that meticulously lays out what’s at stake in Ukraine. Essential reading’ CLARISSA WARD, author of On All Fronts‘An essential document for our times’DEXTER FILKINS, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Forever War‘An outstanding, breath-taking and authoritative account’ PETER FRANKOPAN, bestselling author of The Silk Roads‘Takes the reader from the corridors of power to frontline trenches. Trofimov’s gripping account is full of crisp details’ QUENTIN SOMERVILLE, BBC Middle East Correspondent Books Yaroslav Trofimov|Hardback|Penguin Books Ltd|18/01/2024, Penguin Books Ltd<

2022, ISBN: 9780241655443

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russiäs invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs corresponden… Mehr…

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russiäs invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. 'Reads like a great novel' SEBASTIAN JUNGER `An instant classic¿ STEVE COLL 'An essential first draft¿ ANNE APPLEBAUM `Essential reading¿ CLARISSA WARD `Outstanding¿ PETER FRANKOPAN Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war¿s decisive moments¿from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut¿to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against Russia in a modern-day battle of David and Goliath. Putin had intended to conquer Ukraine with a vicious blitzkrieg, in a few short weeks. But in the face of this existential threat, the Ukrainian people fought back, turning what looked like certain defeat into a great moral victory, even as the territorial battle continues to seesaw to this day. This is the story of their epic bravery in the face of almost unthinkable aggression. For Trofimov, this war is deeply personal. He grew up in Kyiv and his family has lived there for generations. He tells the story of how everyday Ukrainian citizens¿doctors, computer programmers, businesspeople, and schoolteachers¿risked their lives and lost loved ones. At once heart-breaking and inspiring, and combining vivid reportage with expert military analysis and rare insight into the thinking of Ukrainian leadership, Our Enemies Will Vanish tells the riveting story Ukraine¿s fight for survival and refusal to surrender as it has never been told before. --------------------------------------- `Achieves the highest level of war reporting: a tough, detailed account that nevertheless reads like a great novel. I did not really understand Ukraine until I read Trofimov's account¿ SEBASTIAN JUNGER, bestselling author of The Perfect Storm `A stunning work of eyewitness reportage and literary nuance that brings alive both the brutalities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war¿s small absurdities and comic interludes. An instant classic¿ STEVE COLL, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ghost Wars `Extraordinarily brave reporting, exceptionally clear writing. An essential first draft of the history of the war¿ ANNE APPLEBAUM, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Twilight of Democracy `A gripping read that meticulously lays out what¿s at stake in Ukraine. Essential reading¿ CLARISSA WARD, author of On All Fronts `An essential document for our times¿ DEXTER FILKINS, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Forever War `An outstanding, breath-taking and authoritative account¿ PETER FRANKOPAN, bestselling author of The Silk Roads `Takes the reader from the corridors of power to frontline trenches. Trofimov¿s gripping account is full of crisp details¿ QUENTIN SOMERVILLE, BBC Middle East Correspondent Buch, Penguin Books Ltd<

2024, ISBN: 9780241655443

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs corresponde… Mehr…

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war’s decisive moments—from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut—to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against Russia in a modern-day battle of David and Goliath. Putin had intended to conquer Ukraine with a vicious blitzkrieg, in a few short weeks. But in the face of this existential threat, the Ukrainian people fought back, turning what looked like certain defeat into a great moral victory, even as the territorial battle continues to seesaw to this day. This is the story of their epic bravery in the face of almost unthinkable aggression.For Trofimov, this war is deeply personal. He grew up in Kyiv and his family has lived there for generations. He tells the story of how everyday Ukrainian citizens—doctors, computer programmers, businesspeople, and schoolteachers—risked their lives and lost loved ones. At once heart-breaking and inspiring, and combining vivid reportage with expert military analysis and rare insight into the thinking of Ukrainian leadership, Our Enemies Will Vanish tells the riveting story Ukraine’s fight for survival and refusal to surrender as it has never been told before. Books Yaroslav Trofimov|Hardback|Penguin Books Ltd|18/01/2024, Penguin Books Ltd<