Beschrijving

War rarely starts with invasion-but invasion, devastating though it is, is often the moment when diplomacy gives way to conflict. Sadly, for Ukraine it has marked the start of a long and brutal chapter that has continued since 2022.

With no clear end in sight, Peter Longley’s UKRAINE is a sweeping family saga spanning 1900 to the present day. Through the fictional Lemontov-Sokolov family, the story moves from the last years of the Russian Empire into the upheavals of 1905, the revolutions of 1917, the fall of the Tsar, and the civil war that leads to the formation of the USSR, including Soviet Ukraine.

The family then endures the Nazi invasion in the Second World War and the Soviet \