This compelling short-read recounts award-winning author and correspondent Owen Matthews' journey across war-torn Ukraine in the summer of 2014. But not only is this a professional journalist's account: it is an insightful and personal journey into the history of this blood-soaked land of curses and new beginnings. Matthews retraces the roots of his mother's tragedy-struck Ukrainian-born family and discovers that "e;though we believe we think with our rational mind, part of us - a deep part - thinks with the blood."e; He understands this country in a way few other foreign correspondents can, and tells the story of Europe's latest civil war through the eyes of an eccentric cast of participants, from a sic-fi novelist turned general in the rebel capital of Donetsk to a the Jewish leader of an Ukrainian ultranationalist party in Kiev. It is an extraordinary insight into the disturbing...
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