Undefeatable: Odesa in Love and War
In this moving love letter to the Ukrainian city, Julian Evans became an outsider-turned-insider when he fell in love with a woman from Odesa and started a family there. Upon Russian invasion in 2022, it was this personal connection that would inadvertently propel him to the frontline and establish him as an authoritative voice on Odesa's place in Europe's story - and, indeed, in Britain's too.
Synopsis
'This is the account we've been starved of: an insight into Ukraine from an authoritative British writer who has skin in the country’s game. ‘Odesa is my discovered heart,’ confesses Julian Evans, who fell in love with a woman from this constantly beguiling Black Sea port and started a family there, ‘the place that's given me what I need for more than twenty-five years.’ An outsider turned insider, his deep personal involvement compelled him to the front line of an unprovoked war without precedent in Europe for nearly eighty years. His vivid, first-hand reportage shows how Odesa’s story is inseparable from Ukraine’s – and more than that, how it has become our story too.'
-Nicholas Shakespeare
Publisher information
- Publisher: Scotland Street Press
- ISBN: 9781910895986
- Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 20 mm
- Weight: 522g
- Languages: English
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