Recensori in anteprimaTim Judah

Ever since Russia shocked the world with its nearly overnight annexation of Crimea, Ukraine has been embroiled in an armed struggle. Today, pro-Russian separatists continue to combat Ukraine's newly elected coalition government. Cities fall and are recaptured, misinformation reigns, and more than two million people have been displaced. In 1984, George Orwell wrote: "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." With In Wartime, Judah unpacks a century of conflict to lay bare the events and misunderstandings that have turned neighbors against one another and mired Europe's largest country in a conflict seemingly without end. In Lviv, Ukraine's western cultural capital, mothers tend the graves of sons killed on the other side of the country. In Maidan Square, where the protests that deposed President Yanukovych began, pamphleteers, recruiters, buskers, and mascots compete for attention. In Donetsk, civilians who cheered Russian forces find their hope waning in the face of resource shortages and an unending war. Judah interviews Russian agents, weary historians, and desperate civil servants for their clashing explanations of the conflict. Judah also takes us around the region to sites where history continues to mutate. Tourists pose for photos in the now only slightly radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. A tower that served as the headquarters of a Nazi POW camp is rebranded as a luxury hotel. And in the villages that dot Ukraine's famous farmland, retirees offer wildly different accounts of the invasions, deportations, famines, and genocides that reshaped the region in the twentieth century. Judah deftly interweaves these encounters to create a sweeping and definitive portrait of a disintegrating nation.

Ever since Russia shocked the world with its nearly overnight annexation of Crimea, Ukraine has been embroiled in an armed struggle. Today, pro-Russian separatists continue to combat Ukraine's newly elected coalition government. Cities fall and are recaptured, misinformation reigns, and more than two million people have been displaced. In 1984, George Orwell wrote: "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." With In Wartime, Judah unpacks a century of conflict to lay bare the events and misunderstandings that have turned neighbors against one another and mired Europe's largest country in a conflict seemingly without end. In Lviv, Ukraine's western cultural capital, mothers tend the graves of sons killed on the other side of the country. In Maidan Square, where the protests that deposed President Yanukovych began, pamphleteers, recruiters, buskers, and mascots compete for attention. In Donetsk, civilians who cheered Russian forces find their hope waning in the face of resource shortages and an unending war. Judah interviews Russian agents, weary historians, and desperate civil servants for their clashing explanations of the conflict. Judah also takes us around the region to sites where history continues to mutate. Tourists pose for photos in the now only slightly radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. A tower that served as the headquarters of a Nazi POW camp is rebranded as a luxury hotel. And in the villages that dot Ukraine's famous farmland, retirees offer wildly different accounts of the invasions, deportations, famines, and genocides that reshaped the region in the twentieth century. Judah deftly interweaves these encounters to create a sweeping and definitive portrait of a disintegrating nation.