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A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the heroism of the Ukrainian people in their resistance by Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Since Russia's invasion in February 2022, Trofimov has spent extensive time on the front lines, tracing decisive moments of the conflict—from the battle for Kyiv to the fierce struggle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut. He illustrates how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against a formidable military power in a modern-day David and Goliath scenario. Initially, Putin aimed to conquer Ukraine swiftly, but the Ukrainian people's resilience transformed what seemed like certain defeat into a moral victory, even as the territorial battle continues. Trofimov's connection to Ukraine is personal; he grew up in Kyiv, and his family has deep roots there. With empathy and local insight, he shares the stories of everyday Ukrainians—doctors, programmers, businesspeople, and teachers—who risked their lives and lost loved ones. Blending these narratives with military analysis, he provides a unique perspective on Ukrainian leadership and the war's critical stages. As this brutal struggle unfolds, it implicates the United States and NATO allies, threatening global stability. At once heart-breaking and inspiring, this account captures the Ukrainian refusal to surrender, highlighting their fight for justice

Seventeen-year-old Deborah Rosenbaum, ambitious and in love with literature, arrives in the capital of the new Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kharkiv, 1930, to make her own fate as a modern woman. The stale and forbidding ways of the past are out; it's a new dawn, the Soviet era, where skyscrapers go up overnight. Deborah finds work and meets a dashing young officer named Samuel who is training to become a fighter pilot. They fall in love, and she becomes pregnant.But Deborah's prospects - and Ukraine's - soon dim. Famine plagues the over-harvested countryside, and any deviation from Moscow-dictated ideology is punished by without warning, Samuel is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Deborah is on her own with a baby. And this is only the beginning.Germany and Russia mobilize, and Ukraine becomes the no-man's-land during World War II, where its yellow fields of wheat run red with blood. Caught in the middle, like her country, Deborah must do whatever it takes to survive. Not only to protect herself, but also her increasingly observant mother and her increasingly anti-Semitic young son, who is being raised as a Russian. Deborah must change her name, renounce her religion, marry a man she doesn't love, and face the possibility of giving up on all her dreams.

A foreign correspondent from the 'Wall Street Journal' who has reported extensively from the Middle East, Yaroslav Trofimov here tells the story of the 1979 siege of Mecca. Hardly covered at the time, the event is now opened up through interviews with direct participants and the use of declassified documents.

Drawing on reporting from more than a dozen Islamic countries, "Wall Street Journal" reporter Trofimov offers an unforgettable portrait of the Muslim world after September 11. What emerges is a penetrating portrait of people, faith, and countries.