Invasion
Book description
A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING
The first book of reportage from the front line of the Ukraine war. This is a powerful, moving first draft of history written by the award-winning Guardian journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and Shadow State.
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Luke Harding is a journalist who has spent many years as The Guardian correspondent in Ukraine including the present war.
The book is a mixture of historical analysis and on-the-spot reporting which makes it read like a thriller. It is vivid and at times harrowing, particularly the reports from Bucha after the massacres there. Harding pulls no punches, arguing the brutality of the war comes from Putin himself: ‘His apparent goal: the annihilation of a country, a culture and its citizens.’
Complicit in this genocidal operation are the Russian media elite who frequently openly call for the extermination of the…
From Shane's list on explaining Russia’s War against Ukraine.
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