"Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko, a commander in the Ukrainian army serving on the front line of battle, embodies her country's resistance to the Russian invasion. When her father self-immolated on Maidan Square in central Kyiv in an act of protest, she held a press conference to explain to journalists that he acted 'in sound mind.' Later, in battle on the front line, she would learn via radio-phone that her husband had been killed nearby. In 2023, veteran war correspondent Lara Marlowe met Mykytenko while covering the war, and found her to be 'one of the most extraordinary people I have interviewed in 42 years of journalism.' From their months of conversations, Marlowe stitched together Mykytenko’s accounts into a riveting revelation of what modern warfare is really like. Told entirely in Mykytenko’s first person voice"-- Penguinrandomhouse.com.
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