Shuster paints with great sympathy a complex picture of Mr. Zelensky and his transformation.

Takes the reader inside the nuclear bunker under the presidential palace in the first hours of the invasion.

Authoritative and engaging.

Intimate.

A far more intimate and much better informed biography than most politicians get from journalists. Shuster is an honest and frank biographer, thoroughly equipped for the job.

The book’s first draft was completed in the summer of 2023 and captures the mood shifts of the first 18 months of war.

A compelling portrait of a man who has confounded Putin and whatever pre-invasion predictions he received from his intelligence agencies.

As Simon Shuster’s superb wartime biography shows, the Ukrainian president rose to an unimaginable occasion, yet criticism is on the horizon.

An important work as one of the first fully researched, book-length chronicles of the ongoing war in Ukraine..

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