The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister
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WITH A FOREWORD BY PHILIPPE SANDS AND AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV
'If you read only one book about the war, this is the one to read.' -Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm
'Unforgettable. An immediate history of a cruel war and a personal chronicle of unbearable loss' -Simon…
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Long before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia and pro-Russian forces tried to reclaim Ukraine through armed conflict after it declared independence in 1991. More than 500,000 people died in consecutive wars from 2014, among them Volodymyr Pavliv, a soldier in the Ukrainian Armed Forces who died of shrapnel wounds in 2017. His sister, Olesya Khromeychuk, a historian, scholar, and director of the Ukrainian Institute of London, narrates her brother’s death in this meditation on grief and war.
As a memoirist, she reveals the nuances of her brother, at once patriotic, brave, complicated, and difficult. Her reflections on his…
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