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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.
About the author
Shannon Monaghan (PhD) is a historian of modern war, with degrees in History from Yale University and Boston College, and the author of A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II. She started her career interning in international arms transfers at the State Department. Since then, she has worked in strategy consulting and data analytics, and taught writing at Harvard University.
Summary
Based on interviews and body-cam footage, a gripping account of British and American volunteers fighting in Ukraine, from Kyiv to Bakhmut.
Report
'Explores in bloody detail... what it's really like to volunteer on Ukraine's front line.' The Sunday Times
