From Crimea with Love: Misadventures in the Making of Sharpe’s Rifles
‘A revealing account of the tricky reality behind TV’s glamorous image’ Daily Mail
‘A revealing account of the tricky reality behind TV’s glamorous image’ Daily Mail
‘Elegant and terrifying, the story of those who gave up life in the West for Ukraine’s frontlines – some to save democracy, some to save themselves. A modern-day Homage to Catalonia – and Fight Club on steroids.’ – Oliver Poole, London Standard
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE
WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD
‘This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack. Written by a poet, it is also a work of literature, published after the author lost her life doing her research. It is an icon of a young woman’s heroism’ Philippa Gregory
‘A brilliant book’ Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics
‘The essential, must-read insider account of the West’s cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face of global trade. Magisterial and gripping’ Catherine Belton
‘A brilliant, engagingly written and timely book’ Owen Matthews
‘A very good book’ Mark Galeotti
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
‘An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of our era’ ANNE APPLEBAUM
‘This is the Zelensky book we’ve been waiting for’ CATHERINE BELTON
Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023
*A Telegraph Book of the Year*
A Times Best Book of Summer 2023
*Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards*
An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol.
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
‘A Victorian drama of three intertwined lives set against a backcloth of the greatest empire the world has ever seen. By degrees heroic, poignant, whimsical and tragic, Brian Thompson’s wonderful book is precisely what that much-misused cliché “rattling good yarn” might have been coined to describe.’ RICHARD HOLMES