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'A deeply moving and beautifully written account of her brother's death fighting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. An immediate history of a cruel war and a personal chronicle of unbearable loss, beautifully and vividly told by a superb historian and elegant writer in a work that brings every death in Ukraine alive with transcendent grief and love.' Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History 'Heartbreaking, agonizing, poetical and unforgettable. It does not focus on numbers and dates, but on human experience in a country that has found itself in a state of war.' Andrey Kurkov, bestselling Ukrainian writer, author of numerous novels and Ukraine Diaries 'Olesya’s history reflects the history of modern Ukraine with its problems, hopes, victories and losses. Not imaginary, but real.' Philippe Sands, bestselling author of East West Street and The Ratline With this book, I invite the reader to witness my experience of war, to journey with me from London to Lviv, from peace to a warzone, and to discover why Russia’s war in Ukraine is closer to home than we might think. They make us experience crushing hatred and overwhelming love. Wars happen to us they turn our lives upside down and change us for good. 8 as James Wright Day in North Carolina on what would have been his mother’s birthday.THE DEATH OF A SOLDIER TOLD BY HIS SISTER BY OLESYA KHROMEYCHUKĢ022 | hardback | e-book | audiobook ORDER

“We sat down - we didn’t have many family meetings - but my mother and father sat us down and said, 'Hey, we’ve got something we’d like to tell you,'” Smith said. Smith said he and his sister and brother weren't told about their mother's first marriage until they were in their 20s.

Wright is home, and today, we celebrate a hero's return.” Attic discoveryĪmong those welcoming Wright home was the family of his widow, Margaret Canady Wright Smith, who died in 2009.Īl Smith said his mother married his father, Albert Jessie Smith Jr., in 1946, and the family lived in Lincoln County. He is back in the land he fought to save, a country he carried in his heart while gallantly serving in a land that was not his own, liberating people he did not know. “We reunite him to the American soil upon which his house still stands, the soil he once played on as a child and walked on as an adult,” Windley said.