2024 | Christopher Miller "The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine" - Instytut Pileckiego

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2024 | Christopher Miller "The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine"

Christopher Miller’s The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine received the “Special Prize” during the 2024 edition of the Witold Pilecki International Book Award.

The book The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine is the result of the author’s reporting on, among other events, the Euromaidan protests, the annexation of Crimea and the Russian military invasion of Ukraine. In a book based on personal experiences, dynamic accounts from the frontline and interviews with exceptional characters, the journalist covered the most important events in Ukraine’s recent history, including the genesis of the ongoing armed conflict. Vast, diverse, rebellious and hopeful – such is the picture of Ukraine that emerges from Christopher Miller’s book, whose style is characterized by great insight and sensitivity in equal measure.

The Special Prize is awarded for books examining Russia’s aggression against Ukraine since 2014 or the ongoing protests in Belarus since 2020 and related repressions.

Christopher Miller, an American writer and journalist who has reported from Ukraine and across Eastern Europe for more than thirteen years. Since 2022, he has been the chief Ukraine correspondent for the “Financial Times”, covering Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country. He has reported from the front lines of Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and the Kremlin’s invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. He was part of the “Kyiv Post” team that received the 2014 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism for on-the-ground coverage of the revolution.

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