Looking at Women, Looking at War

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZEWITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD''This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack. Written by a poet, it is also a work of literature, published after the author lost her life doing her research. It is an icon of a young woman’s heroism'' Philippa Gregory Destined to be a classic, a poet''s powerful look at the courage of resistance.When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the country''s literary scene, and parenting her son. Then she became someone new: a war crimes researcher and the chronicler of extraordinary women like herself who joined the resistance. These heroines include Evgenia, a prominent lawyer turned soldier, Oleksandra, who documented tens of thousands of war crimes and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, and Yulia, a librarian who helped uncover the abduction and murder of a children''s book author.Everyone in Ukraine