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Showman The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

Shuster, Simon
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780008599171
Publisert
2024-01-23
Utgiver
Vendor
William Collins
Vekt
640 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
159 mm
Dybde
38 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter
Shuster, Simon

Om bidragsyterne

SIMON SHUSTER has reported from Russia and Ukraine for seventeen years, most of that time as a staff writer for Time magazine. His coverage of the war began in 2014, when he arrived in Crimea as Russian troops took over the peninsula. In 2019, he met and interviewed Volodymyr Zelensky for a profile of his presidential campaign, then continued covering his administration in the years that followed – first traveling to the war zone with the president in April 2021, as the Russians gathered their armies at the border. When the full-scale invasion began the following year, Simon spent months embedded with the president’s team, securing unparalleled access to their compound in Kyiv, where he wrote The Showman, his first book.

Showman The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

Shuster, Simon
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
Shuster, Simon
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
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‘This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made’ ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the Zelensky book we’ve been waiting for’ CATHERINE BELTON 'An elegant account of the invasion’s first year as seen by those in the very eye of the storm' DAILY TELEGRAPH TIMES: A BEST BOOK OF 2024 – NEXT YEAR’S TOP READS GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 INDEPENDENT: A BOOK OF THE MONTH WATERSTONES: JANUARY’S BEST BOOKS WRITTEN WITH UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS, THIS IS THE FIRST INSIDE, INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PRESIDENT ZELENSKY AND HIS TEAM. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels with President Zelensky to the front; and dozens of interviews with him, his wife, his friends and enemies, his advisers, ministers and military commanders, The Showman tells an intimate and eye-opening story of the President’s evolution from a slapstick actor to a symbol of resilience, revealing how he managed to rally the world’s democracies behind his cause. Clear-eyed about the President’s early failures as a peacemaker and his willingness to silence political dissent, the book offers a complex picture of a man struggling to break what he sees as a historical cycle of oppression that began generations before he was born. Even as the war drags on, Zelensky lays out his vision for its future course and, through his actions, demonstrates his strategy for countering the Russians and keeping the West on his side. The result is a riveting, up-close picture of the invasion as experienced by its number one target and improbable hero. The Showman, as a work of eyewitness journalism, provides an essential perspective on the war defining our age. As a study in leadership and human resolve, its appeal is timeless and universal.
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'Superb… in coming years, there may be [many] biographies of Zelensky… few, though, will better Shuster’s credentials. A fluent Russian speaker, he knew Zelensky’s team long before the war, remaining part of the inner circle when the president became the world’s most in-demand interviewee. In the invasion’s early days, he was among the few journalists allowed through the formidable security of the wartime bunker…The result is a vivid account of life beneath the ground at 11 Bankova Street in Kyiv… an elegant account of the invasion’s first year as seen by those in the very eye of the storm' Daily Telegraph 'A brilliant piece of extended reportage … Shuster’s book does justice to a complex man, who is fighting our fight as well as his own' The Times A compelling piece of living history and Shuster, who has reported from Russia and Ukraine for the best part of two decades, skilfully pieces together the transformation of Zelensky… highly readable' Independent ‘An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of our era. This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made’ Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Twilight of Democracy ‘A narrative tour de force that takes us deep behind the scenes of the Ukrainian president’s bunker during the tensest days of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Shuster gives an astonishingly intimate portrayal of the former comedian turned wartime leader battling to save his nation – and Europe – that nevertheless maintains a doggedly honest and critical balance' Catherine Belton, author of Putin’s People
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• SHUSTER HAS UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS TO ZELENSKY, was with him in the bunker and this book was written was inside the presidential compound • COMBINES INTIMATE FLY-ON-THE-WALL STORYTELLING WITH THE UNNERVING NARRATIVE OF HOW THE WAR IS UNFOLDING ACROSS UKRAINE • A MAJOR WORK OF NARRATIVE JOURNALISM TOLD WITH BRILLIANCE AND INSIGHT • HALF OF SHUSTER'S FAMILY IS UKRAINIAN AND HALF IS RUSSIAN Competition: Putin’s People;Kleptocracy;Ukraine;The Story of Russia;Diaries;A Message From;Midnight in Chernobyl;The Gates of Europe;Borderland;Red Famine. Catherine Belton;Oliver Bullough;Tom Burgis;Orlando Figes;Antony Beevor;Andrey Kurkov;Volodymyr Zelensky;Masha Gessen;Adam Higginbotham;Serhii Plokhy;Anna Reid
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‘This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made’ ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the Zelensky book we’ve been waiting for’ CATHERINE BELTON 'An elegant account of the invasion’s first year as seen by those in the very eye of the storm' DAILY TELEGRAPH TIMES: A BEST BOOK OF 2024 – NEXT YEAR’S TOP READS GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 INDEPENDENT: A BOOK OF THE MONTH WATERSTONES: JANUARY’S BEST BOOKS WRITTEN WITH UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS, THIS IS THE FIRST INSIDE, INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PRESIDENT ZELENSKY AND HIS TEAM. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels with President Zelensky to the front; and dozens of interviews with him, his wife, his friends and enemies, his advisers, ministers and military commanders, The Showman tells an intimate and eye-opening story of the President’s evolution from a slapstick actor to a symbol of resilience, revealing how he managed to rally the world’s democracies behind his cause. Clear-eyed about the President’s early failures as a peacemaker and his willingness to silence political dissent, the book offers a complex picture of a man struggling to break what he sees as a historical cycle of oppression that began generations before he was born. Even as the war drags on, Zelensky lays out his vision for its future course and, through his actions, demonstrates his strategy for countering the Russians and keeping the West on his side. The result is a riveting, up-close picture of the invasion as experienced by its number one target and improbable hero. The Showman, as a work of eyewitness journalism, provides an essential perspective on the war defining our age. As a study in leadership and human resolve, its appeal is timeless and universal.
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'Superb… in coming years, there may be [many] biographies of Zelensky… few, though, will better Shuster’s credentials. A fluent Russian speaker, he knew Zelensky’s team long before the war, remaining part of the inner circle when the president became the world’s most in-demand interviewee. In the invasion’s early days, he was among the few journalists allowed through the formidable security of the wartime bunker…The result is a vivid account of life beneath the ground at 11 Bankova Street in Kyiv… an elegant account of the invasion’s first year as seen by those in the very eye of the storm' Daily Telegraph 'A brilliant piece of extended reportage … Shuster’s book does justice to a complex man, who is fighting our fight as well as his own' The Times A compelling piece of living history and Shuster, who has reported from Russia and Ukraine for the best part of two decades, skilfully pieces together the transformation of Zelensky… highly readable' Independent ‘An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of our era. This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made’ Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Twilight of Democracy ‘A narrative tour de force that takes us deep behind the scenes of the Ukrainian president’s bunker during the tensest days of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Shuster gives an astonishingly intimate portrayal of the former comedian turned wartime leader battling to save his nation – and Europe – that nevertheless maintains a doggedly honest and critical balance' Catherine Belton, author of Putin’s People
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• SHUSTER HAS UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS TO ZELENSKY, was with him in the bunker and this book was written was inside the presidential compound • COMBINES INTIMATE FLY-ON-THE-WALL STORYTELLING WITH THE UNNERVING NARRATIVE OF HOW THE WAR IS UNFOLDING ACROSS UKRAINE • A MAJOR WORK OF NARRATIVE JOURNALISM TOLD WITH BRILLIANCE AND INSIGHT • HALF OF SHUSTER'S FAMILY IS UKRAINIAN AND HALF IS RUSSIAN Competition: Putin’s People;Kleptocracy;Ukraine;The Story of Russia;Diaries;A Message From;Midnight in Chernobyl;The Gates of Europe;Borderland;Red Famine. Catherine Belton;Oliver Bullough;Tom Burgis;Orlando Figes;Antony Beevor;Andrey Kurkov;Volodymyr Zelensky;Masha Gessen;Adam Higginbotham;Serhii Plokhy;Anna Reid
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780008599171
Publisert
2024-01-23
Utgiver
Vendor
William Collins
Vekt
640 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
159 mm
Dybde
38 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter
Shuster, Simon

Om bidragsyterne

SIMON SHUSTER has reported from Russia and Ukraine for seventeen years, most of that time as a staff writer for Time magazine. His coverage of the war began in 2014, when he arrived in Crimea as Russian troops took over the peninsula. In 2019, he met and interviewed Volodymyr Zelensky for a profile of his presidential campaign, then continued covering his administration in the years that followed – first traveling to the war zone with the president in April 2021, as the Russians gathered their armies at the border. When the full-scale invasion began the following year, Simon spent months embedded with the president’s team, securing unparalleled access to their compound in Kyiv, where he wrote The Showman, his first book.

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