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Chosen as the best book of the year by The Economist • Winner of the Peterson Literary Award. "Our Enemies Will Disappear achieves the highest levels of war reporting: an accurate and detailed account, yet reads like a great novel. Reminiscent of Michael Herr's reporting... Frankly, it's what we were all aspiring to. I didn't really understand Ukraine until I read Trofimov's novel." - Sebastian Junger. A revealing eyewitness account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the heroism of the Ukrainian people in their resistance, by Yaroslav Trofimov, chief Ukrainian foreign affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, often on the front lines. In this authoritative narrative, Trofimov traces the decisive moments of the war, from the Battle of Kiev to the Wagner Group's recent bloody conflict over Bakhmut, to show how Ukraine and its allies turned the balance of power against Russia, one of the world's greatest military powers, in a modern-day David-and-Goliath battle. Putin intended to invade and annex Ukraine with a brutal lightning attack, redrawing the map of Europe in a few weeks, with dire geopolitical consequences. But in the face of this existential threat, the Ukrainian people fought back, turning what seemed certain defeat into a great moral victory, even as the territorial struggle continues to this day. This is the story of the epic courage of the Ukrainian people, a people that Trofimov knew well. For him, this war is deeply personal. He grew up in Kyiv, and his family has lived there for generations. With deep empathy and a keen understanding of local reality, Trofimov tells the story of ordinary Ukrainian citizens – doctors, programmers, businessmen, teachers – who risked their lives and lost loved ones. Trofimov combines their brave and tragic stories with expert military analysis, offering a unique insight into the mindset of the Ukrainian leadership and charting the critical stages of what has become a perilous war for Ukraine, Putin's regime, and indeed the entire world. This brutal and disastrous conflict is taking place on another continent, but the United States and its NATO allies are deeply involved. As the war continues, the world threatens to spiral into it. We cannot turn a blind eye. Our Enemies Will Disappear is both poignant and inspiring, an engaging and vivid account from an eyewitness of the Ukrainians' refusal to surrender. It is the story of ordinary people fighting not only for their homes and families, but for justice and democracy itself.