Never Say War
Life Inside Russia - 'Astonishing. A major work' (Antony Beevor)
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- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2026
Summary
‘A totally unprecedented, behind the scenes portrait of Putin’s Russia at war. Astonishing. A major work’ ANTONY BEEVOR
Putin’s Russia silences its citizens, targets foreign journalists and invaded a neighbouring country - while declaring it illegal to say the country is at war. This is what we know from the outside: but what does it feel like on the inside?
The way into this question, for bestselling author and journalist Asne Seierstad, was young Russian soldier Andrey Medve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349020570 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349020574 |
| Author: | Åsne Seierstad, Siân Mackie |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 22mm |
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A totally unprecedented, behind the scenes portrait of Putin’s Russia at war. Her intrepid travels and interviews lift the curtain on the lives and thoughts of all sorts of Russians. It is astonishing. A major work * Antony Beevor *An exquisite work of on-the-ground reportage conjuring all the violence, injustice and contradiction of wartime Russia. Seierstad’s steadfast empathy and personal warmth give her a direct line to the motivations of everyone from blood-soaked mercenaries to Putin’s most implacable critics. Novelistic-in-scope, insightful and humane * Howard Amos, author of Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire *What kind of man enlists to fight in Ukraine? A Russian soldier who runs from Wagner to seek asylum in Norway tells his heart-wrenching story to Åsne Seierstad. Her book takes readers on a journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow and Siberia tracing Russia’s war with Ukraine. A happy read it is not but a necessary one * Jana Bakunina, author of The Good Russian: In Search of a Nation’s Soul *
About The Author
Åsne Seierstad
Asne Seierstad is an award-winning war correspondent and writer, best known for The Bookseller of Kabul, which has sold over two million copies.
She first visited Russia in 1990, ahead of beginning studies in the Russian language in what was then Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. She reported on the country throughout the 90s and lived between Moscow and Grozny from 2006-7 while researching her book The Angel of Grozny: Life Inside Chechnya.
Between 2023 and 2024, she made five extended trips to Russia that form the basis of her latest book. Her insights are invaluable in understanding the past, present, and future of a behemothian country that concerns us all.
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