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You Don't Know What War Is
- The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine
- Narrated by: Keira Knightley, Michael Morpurgo - foreword
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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Summary
Bloomsbury presents You Don't Know What War Is by Yeva Skalietska, read by Keira Knightley.
Everyone knows the word 'war'. But very few understand what it truly means. When you find you have to face it, you feel totally lost, walled in by fright and despair. Until you’ve been there, you don’t know what war is.
Published in association with the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, with a foreword written and read by Michael Morpurgo.
This is the gripping, urgent and moving diary of young Ukrainian refugee Yeva Skalietska. It follows twelve days in Ukraine that changed 12-year-old Yeva's life forever. She was woken in the early hours to the terrifying sounds of shelling. Russia had invaded Ukraine, and her beloved Kharkiv home was no longer the safe haven it should have been. It was while she and her granny were forced to seek shelter in a damp, cramped basement that Yeva decided to write down her story. And it is a story that the world needs to hear.
Yeva captured the nation's heart when she was featured on Channel 4 News with her granny as they fled Ukraine for Dublin. In You Don't Know What War Is, Yeva records what is happening hour-by-hour as she seeks safety and travels from Kharkiv to Dublin. You Don’t Know What War Is is a powerful insight into what conflict is like through the eyes of a child and an essential book for adults and older children alike.
Critic reviews
"Yeva speaks a truth that all of us, young and old, must listen to." (Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse)
"This book has touched my heart in a way that I am finding hard to put into words. Everyone, absolutely everyone, should read it. You will love Yeva." (Christy Lefteri, No.1 international bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo)
"The most important story of our times told from the inside by the best narrator: a wise twelve-year-old girl." (Viv Groskop, comedian, writer and podcaster)
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- Anonymous User
- 16-01-23
Heartbreaking
The way this girl tells her story is heartbreaking but brilliant story and how she got away !!
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- PeTeR
- 20-01-23
A plea of a child
This book is a plea of a child who has more logic, sanity, humanity and love, than anyone, who have crossed the border of her country with a gun and righteous ideology and propaganda filled, otherwise vacant brain.
The reporting goes quite predictably with initial shock, struggles and eventually - seemingly calming ending. But then little stories of her friends return you to that crucial first minute, hour, day or month, when you are reminded how one moment orchestrated by a mad man can change lives of so many.
History has repeated itself and its up to all of us to:
-set up bar higher. Where all the world is looking after each other with respect, understanding and love;
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- plunge back in to medieval "free for all" land grab for those who have bigger stick and more advanced brainwashing. Risking more suffering, destruction and famine.
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- Kindle Customer
- 19-05-23
A glimpse into what it's been like
So informing of how lives were suddenly turned upside down, and your old way of life lost, thank you
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- Ariel
- 28-12-22
Brilliant
Very moving without being depressing. Made the war and the experiences of adults and children really come alive.
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- Doctor_VV
- 03-12-22
Sad story and terrible events in 2022
It was interesting to listen, how young girl describes war being one of millions who suffer from russian cruelty and aggression.
So sad to know that wars continue in our time taking life and bringing sorrow, grief, death.
Perverted federation does not have a future.
God will put an end to every evil on this planet. He promised and He will fulfil!
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- Ben Kane
- 30-12-22
Excellent
Moving first hand account of the war in Ukraine.
Both my kids (13 and 16) thoroughly enjoyed it.
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- Anne
- 04-03-23
Powerful and spine chilling
Told through the voice of a child makes this tale and the horrors and impact of war all that more vivid. Yeva brought it to life in a way that adults rarely can. She t9ook me with her as she negotiated her way through the perils.
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- Steve Keats
- 08-01-23
This book is really interesting
Hi his book is really fascinating and anyone wishing to learn more about war will enjoy it. It will s written very well and has a great story line to it.
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