Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence

Yaroslav Trofimov

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Winner of the Peterson Literary Prize “Our Enemies Will Vanish achieves the highest level of war reporting: a tough, detailed account that nevertheless reads like a great novel. One is reminded of Michael Herr's Dispatches . . . Frankly, it's what we have all aspired to. I did not really understand Ukraine until I read Trofimov's account.” —Sebastian Junger A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people in their resistance by Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines.

War & MilitaryWar & Military · medium confidenceWar & Military81 signalsLlm Classifier: War & Military -> War & MilitaryKeyword Classifier: Arts & Criticism -> Arts & CriticismTopic Classifier: Essays & Cultural Criticism -> Arts & CriticismEssays & Cultural CriticismWar & Military StrategyEurope & Russia
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