Putin's prisoner : my time as a prisoner of war in Ukraine
Aslin, Aiden2023
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Total copies: 1
Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at Mariupol. Pinned down at a Mariupol steelworks, after a month-long siege and running out of supplies, Aiden was part of the mass surrender of over a thousand Ukrainian troops, in April 2022. Then his real ordeal began. Singled out for his British passport, Aiden was interrogated, tortured, stabbed, turned into a propaganda zombie, tried by a kangaroo court and then sentenced to death. A victim of a catalogue of abuses of international law, Aiden struggled to cling on to any hope of survival. Certain that he was going to be executed, he was eventually freed in a prisoner exchange and permitted to return home.
Main title:
Putin's prisoner : my time as a prisoner of war in Ukraine / Aiden Aslin with John Sweeney.
Author:
Aslin, Aiden, authorSweeney, John, 1958-, author
Imprint:
London : Bantam, 2023.
Collation:
xiii, 268 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780857505293 (hbk)
Dewey class:
947.7086092947.7086
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
655673