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I will show you how it was : the story of wartime Kyiv

Ponomarenko, Illia2024
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In late February 2022, a series of missiles and rocket strikes began falling upon Ukraine, as the Russian military barreled over the border and fanned out across the country. First they took Chernobyl, then Kherson, then Mariupol. Time stood still as the world waited for Ukraine to flatten underneath the boot of its neighbour. Meanwhile, on the front lines in the capital city, Kyiv Independent reporter Illia Ponomarenko was seeing a different story on unfold: after months-years-of waiting for this long-feared attack, Ukraine was fed up and ready to fight back. The Russians bogged down hard in combat east and west of Kyiv. They got exhausted. They screwed up logistics. They sustained heavy losses. Their unbelievably overconfident blitz was failing. This book is Illia Ponomarenko's memoir of the war on his homeland, offering a fiery diatribe against Russian hypocrisy and a moving look at what is being lost.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2024.
Collation:
288 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781639733873 (hbk)
Dewey class:
947.7086
Language:
English
BRN:
779024
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