The importance and timeliness of this book lie in the opportunity to give a voice to the people who survived the Russian occupation. In the foreword, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk writes, “It often lacks resonance against the backdrop of statements by politicians who suggest handing over the occupied territories to the aggressor country and satisfying its imperial appetites. The voice of the survivors makes such appeals immoral.”

The first book of reportage from the front line of the Ukraine war. This is a powerful and moving first draft of history written by the award-winning Guardian journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and Shadow State, who forecast Putin’s dark adventurist ambitions.

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe.

In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine.

Exiled Russian journalist, Mikhail Zygar, reveals his country's history of oppressing Ukraine. In his book, War and Punishment, Zygar blames Russia's colonialist mindset and state-controlled culture for the war. This important book dismantles the imperial narrative that Putin used to justify a brutal invasion.

Yaroslav Trofimov is the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for two consecutive years, in 2022 and 2023. Before covering the Russian war on Ukraine, he reported on most major conflicts of the past two decades, serving as the Journal’s bureau chief in Afghanistan and Pakistan and as a correspondent in Iraq.

OUR ENEMIES WILL VANISH: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence

Yaroslav Trofimov – Author
Penguin Press — Publisher

Our Enemies Will Vanish is a revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the heroism of the Ukrainian people in their resistance, written by Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

During the most intense fighting for Bakhmut in the winter and in March 2023, the author spent days and nights with Ukrainian infantrymen and artillerymen, medics and chaplains, rescuers and children who remained in the city and its surroundings, where artillery shelling and street battles were a constant. It’s a story about the anti-aircraft gunner who has just shot down a Russian fighter jet, father and sons fighting side by side, and a member of Wagner who cherishes Nabokov.