Reviews: A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, Death & Defiance in Ukraine; War and Punishment: The story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance; The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine
The other day, John Simpson, He Who Cannot Be Removed From The BBC, tweeted something purportedly about Volodymyr Zelensky. What it was really about, though, was John Simpson – how many world leaders he had interviewed (200), over how long (more than 50 years), and who he most admired (Zelensky, Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel).
Spanning just a few dramatic days, the foreign reporter’s riveting account of the battle for Voznesensk highlights the weaknesses of Putin’s invasion and the courage of Ukrainians