TO DIE WITH SUCH MEN
Frontline Stories from Ukraine’s International Legion
Genre:
Current Issues, Biography & Memoirs, Economy & Politics
Author:
Shannon Monaghan
Publisher:
Hurst
Language:
AUTHOR BIO:
Shannon Monaghan PhD is a historian of modern war educated at Yale University and Boston College, and author of A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men. She has interned in international arms transfers at the US State Department, worked in strategy consulting and data analytics, and taught writing at Harvard University.
Pages:
392
Publication:
Rights available:
French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
DESCRIPTION:
Based on interviews and body-cam footage, a gripping account of British and American volunteers fighting in Ukraine, from Kyiv to Bakhmut.
This book is Black Hawk Down meets Enemy at the Gates meets Band of Brothers, and it’s all true. It’s about what happens when Western politicians carelessly assume we’re living the ‘end of history’—until the Great Game comes back, uglier and more callous than ever. It’s about men who tried to fix those mistakes, at the risk—sometimes loss—of their lives.
Shannon Monaghan follows a core group of Western volunteers in Ukraine, fighting together from the early battle for Kyiv through to the last stands at Severodonetsk and Bakhmut. They arrived alone, but became a family—back when nobody bothered to learn names, because they all expected to die.
These men knew they’d be fighting without the NATO support they were used to. They knew the danger they faced, and how they might be criticised for fighting someone else’s war. But they also knew it was the right thing to do. This is their story.
REVIEWS:
‘Explores in bloody detail… what it’s really like to volunteer on Ukraine’s front line.’ — The Sunday Times ‘In missions from Kyiv to Kherson, Bakhmut, and many places far and wide, To Die with Such Men brings the ugly reality of war to life with extraordinary and unforgettable precision.’ — Booklist ‘A chilling, gut-wrenching and inspiring tale of a band of brothers from across the world, superbly narrated by a writer of immense courage and sensitivity, with both a burning sense of justice and deep knowledge of the ways of war.’ — Xan Smiley, Editor at Large, The Economist ‘Written in the finest traditions of war reportage, To Die With Such Men captures the courage and camaraderie of Ukraine’s International Legion in captivating, elegiac prose. A haunting and visceral tale of thos...
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