Echoes of Innocence: A Boy's Diary amidst the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Echoes of Innocence: A Boy's Diary amidst the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Author: Moustafa Ezzat

Publisher: Moustafa Ezzat

Published: 2024-05-16

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13:

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Amidst the chaos and uncertainty lies the heart of the community, set in a garden full of strife. This is the story of Vasylivka, a modest village in whose cobbled streets and places the voice of history can be heard. The resilience of its inhabitants shines like a beacon of hope Set in the aftermath of the Russia' invasion of Ukraine, this book tells the terrifying journey of a boy's diary, capturing the essence of life in the midst of the difficulties and troubles we experience, men are taken prisoner, we witness the trials and triumphs of those who survived the turbulent years with courage and bravery, facing the challenges of war. Their story is one of survival, connection amidst chaos, and finding comfort in the simple moments of daily life. In the midst of all this turmoil, a young boy's diary is a symbol of the indomitable human spirit, telling the story of the hopes, fears and dreams of a generation trapped in history. From childhood innocence to the brutality of war, his lyrics paint a picture of the beautiful life in a village on the brink of change. Through the pages of this book, we embark on a journey of discovery into the depths of human emotions and resilience. From the depths of despair to the triumph of victory, we bear witness to the unbreakable friendship that binds us all together in the face of adversity. This is much more than a story; it is a testament to the power of the human spirit to persevere, persevere, and demonstrate strength in the face of adversity. Join us on a journey through the heart of Vasylivka, where the sounds of the past echo with the promise of the future. "

Bloodlands
Bloodlands

Author: Timothy Snyder

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2012-10-02

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0465032974

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From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century. Americans call the Second World War “the Good War.” But before it even began, America’s ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single story. With a new afterword addressing the relevance of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy, Bloodlands is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning today.

The Road to Unfreedom
The Road to Unfreedom

Author: Timothy Snyder

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0525574476

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. “A brilliant analysis of our time.”—Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as Vladimir Putin found fascist ideas that could be used to justify rule by the wealthy. In the 2010s, it has spread from east to west, aided by Russian warfare in Ukraine and cyberwar in Europe and the United States. Russia found allies among nationalists, oligarchs, and radicals everywhere, and its drive to dissolve Western institutions, states, and values found resonance within the West itself. The rise of populism, the British vote against the EU, and the election of Donald Trump were all Russian goals, but their achievement reveals the vulnerability of Western societies. In this forceful and unsparing work of contemporary history, based on vast research as well as personal reporting, Snyder goes beyond the headlines to expose the true nature of the threat to democracy and law. To understand the challenge is to see, and perhaps renew, the fundamental political virtues offered by tradition and demanded by the future. By revealing the stark choices before us--between equality or oligarchy, individuality or totality, truth and falsehood--Snyder restores our understanding of the basis of our way of life, offering a way forward in a time of terrible uncertainty.

A Stranger to Myself
A Stranger to Myself

Author: Willy Peter Reese

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2005-11-02

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 142999875X

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A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War, Russia 1941-44 is the haunting memoir of a young German soldier on the Russian front during World War II. Willy Peter Reese was only twenty years old when he found himself marching through Russia with orders to take no prisoners. Three years later he was dead. Bearing witness to--and participating in--the atrocities of war, Reese recorded his reflections in his diary, leaving behind an intelligent, touching, and illuminating perspective on life on the eastern front. He documented the carnage perpetrated by both sides, the destruction which was exacerbated by the young soldiers' hunger, frostbite, exhaustion, and their daily struggle to survive. And he wrestled with his own sins, with the realization that what he and his fellow soldiers had done to civilians and enemies alike was unforgivable, with his growing awareness of the Nazi policies toward Jews, and with his deep disillusionment with himself and his fellow men. An international sensation, A Stranger to Myself is an unforgettable account of men at war.

The White Guard
The White Guard

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2010-09-16

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 0571271146

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See? All we need is... a map and...some kind of plan. This overcoat is neutral darling, neither Bolshevik nor Menshevik. Just essence of Prole. In Kiev during the Russian Civil War, the Turbin household is sanctuary to a ragtag, close-knit crowd presided over by the beautiful Lena. As her brothers prepare to fight for the White Guard, friends charge in from the riotous streets amidst an atmosphere of heady chaos, quaffing vodka, keeling over, declaiming, taking baths, playing guitar, falling in love. But the new regime is poised and in its brutal triumph lies destruction for the Turbins and their world. And those are the real enemies we face, deep in the shadows. This modern man with no name, no past, no love. This desperate hate-filled man born of loneliness and frustration. This man with nothing to be proud of, nothing he is part of. . .

Tree of Smoke
Tree of Smoke

Author: Denis Johnson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-09-04

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 9780374279127

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Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

The New Tsar
The New Tsar

Author: Steven Lee Myers

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0307961613

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"The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president-- of his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history." --

The Crimean Tatars
The Crimean Tatars

Author: Brian Glyn Williams

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9789004121225

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This volume provides the most up-to-date analysis of the ethnic cleansing of the Crimean Tatars, their exile in Central Asia and their struggle to return to the Crimean homeland. It also traces the formation of this diaspora nation from Mongol times to the collapse of the Soviet Union. A theme which emerges through the work is the gradual construction of the Crimea as a national homeland by its indigenous Tatar population. It ends with a discussion of the post-Soviet repatriation of the Crimean Tatars to their Russified homeland and the social, emotional and identity problems involved.

Z for Zachariah
Z for Zachariah

Author: Robert C. O'Brien

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1665911646

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In this post-apocalyptic novel from Newbery Medal–winning author Robert C. O’Brien, a teen girl struggling to survive in the wake of unimaginable disaster comes across another survivor. Ann Burden is sixteen years old and completely alone. The world as she once knew it is gone, ravaged by a nuclear war that has taken everyone from her. For the past year, she has lived in a remote valley with no evidence of any other survivors. But the smoke from a distant campfire shatters Ann’s solitude. Someone else is still alive and making his way toward the valley. Who is this man? What does he want? Can he be trusted? Both excited and terrified, Ann soon realizes there may be worse things than being the last person on Earth.