A Small, Stubborn Town
Life, Death and Defiance in Ukraine
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Narrado por:
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Andrew Harding
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Andrew Harding
Sobre este áudio
A Telegraph Book of the Year, soon to be a BBC Radio 4 dramatisation.
It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of the war.
The heavily-armed Russians are expecting an easy fight - or no fight at all. After all, Voznesensk is a quiet farming town, full of pensioners. But the locals appear to have other ideas.
Svetlana, a grandmother with arthritis, reacts in fury when Russian troops turn her cottage into their blood-soaked headquarters. Valentin, a quick-talking lawyer, joins the town's 'Dads Army' defenders, crouching in a trench with an AK47. Meanwhile, 21-year-old Sergei grabs a Molotov cocktail and lies in wait for Russian tanks as they push towards Dead Water Bridge.
The odds are terrible. But a plan is emerging, and there's a chance it could save not just Voznesensk, but the rest of southern Ukraine. Meanwhile, inside the tanks, an inner battle rages. As Russian officer Igor Rudenko prepares to invade, he has a secret. He is Ukrainian himself.
A gripping work of reportage that tells the story of a pivotal moment in Ukraine's war, this is a real-life thriller about ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances with resilience, humour and ingenuity.
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©2023 Andrew Harding (P)2023 Bonnier Books UKResumo da Crítica
"It would be wonderful if the story told in this beautiful little book were the author's invention. But alas, the story itself is pure truth... We are touched by their courage and dignity - qualities that the author must surely have possessed in equal measure to record these extraordinary events." (Andrey Kurkov)
"A piercing book: the story of extraordinary heroism by ordinary people, and an accessible, limpid account of what battle is actually like." (James Meek)
"This gripping account is the Russian invasion of Ukraine in microcosm." (Lindsey Hilsum)