This book surely will become a classic of war fiction and war journalism and a landmark for our understanding of what is happening in Ukraine today.

Howard Aster discovered this book at the Lviv Literary Festival in late September 2021. On Friday, February 25th, 2022, that infamous day when Ukrainians woke up to the reality of the Russian war against them, the Publisher and the Author desperately made the English language book available to Mosaic Press with the hope that the world would better understand the terror of this continuing Russian war against Ukrainians.

There is a powerful and courageous story here, about an author and how she wrote this book, how the book was published in Ukraine by a fearless small Ukrainian publisher and how it is now made available to English language readers.