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We’ve had lots of customer requests for book and map recommendations to help them better understand the situation in Ukraine. Here are some staff selections on geopolitical books, fiction that portrays a sense of place, maps and flags of Ukraine as well as some more general books offering information on history, war and current affairs.

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The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

Paperback

by Marshall, Tim

Elliott and Thompson Ltd

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'I can't imagine reading a better book this year' Daily Mirror Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed. But the world has. In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global poli...

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Ukraine Hand Flag

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The Flag Wholesaler

100% polyester, screen printed flag on a 30cm wooden pole with a white plastic ball cap.

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£2.99

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Paperback

by Tim Marshall

Elliott and Thompson Ltd

All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to understand world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements... but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture.

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Ukraine Diaries

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by Kurkov, Andrey

Vintage

Ukrainian Diaries is acclaimed writer Andrey Kurkov's first-hand account of the crisis in his country. Written from his flat in Kiev, just 500 metres away from Independence Square, Kurkov can smell the burning barricades and hear the sounds of grenades and gunshot. The diaries begin on the first day of the pro-European protests in November, and are a mix of commentary on current events, Ukraine's political ...

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Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

Paperback

by Lamb, Christina

HarperCollins

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 "A wake-up call... These women's stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference." Amal Clooney From award-winning war reporter and co-author of 'I Am Malala', this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence in mo...

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Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

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by Fatland, Erika

Quercus

"A mesmerising trip across Central Asia . . . A fascinating travelogue" Financial Times SHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD/LONELY PLANET DEBUT TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR 2020 Erika Fatland takes the reader on a journey that is unknown to even the most seasoned globetrotter. The five former Soviet Republics' Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all became independent when the Sov...

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Border Wars: The conflicts of tomorrow

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by Dodds, Professor Klaus

Cornerstone

Can Donald Trump really build that wall? What does Brexit mean for Ireland's border? And what would happen if Elon Musk declared himself president of the Moon?

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Grey Bees

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by Kurkov, Andrey

Quercus

Ukraine's most famous novelist dramatises the conflict raging in his country through the adventures of a mild-mannered beekeeper. From the author of the bestselling Death and the Penguin.

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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

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by Plokhy, Serhii

Hamish Hamilton

Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - and they all left their imprint on the landscape, the language and the people living within these shifting borders. In this authoritative book, Serhii Plokhy traces the history of Ukraine from the arrival of the Vikings in the tenth century to the current Russian i...

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Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

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by Kassabova, Kapka

Granta Books

Winner of the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award's Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing ...

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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

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by Applebaum, Anne

Penguin

Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizes In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet...

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Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin

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by Plokhy, Serhii

Penguin

In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this violation of national sovereignty was in fact only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues that we can only understand the merging of imperialism and nationalism...

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Ukraine - Moldova F&B Road Map

Sheet map, folded

Ukraine and Moldova with eastern Romania, on a large, indexed road map with street plans of central Kiev and Chisinau. Place names are in Roman alphabet, with main towns also given in Cyrillic.

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A Matter of Death and Life

Paperback

by Andrey Kurkov

Vintage

Marital troubles? Sick of life? Suicide the answer? Why not get yourself a contract killer? Nothing easier, provided you communicate only by phone and box number. You give him your photograph, specify when and where to find you, then sit back and prepare to die. Murdered, you will be of greater interest than ever you were in life. More to him than met the eye will be the judgment. A mysterious killing lives...

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Worth Dying for: The Power and Politics of Flags

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by Marshall, Tim

Elliott and Thompson Ltd

When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel? For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes and dreams. We wave them. Burn them. March under their colours. And still, in the 21st century, we die for them. Flags fly at the UN, on the Arab street, from front porches in Texas. They represent the politics of high power as well as the politics of the mob. From the r...

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Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

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by Belton, Catherine

HarperCollins

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020 A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2020 'The Putin book that we've been waiting for' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland 'Books about modern Russia abound ... Belton has surpassed them all. Her much-awaited book i...

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Putin's Russia: The Definitive Account Of Putin's Rise To Power

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by Politkovskaya, Anna

Harvill Press

A former KGB spy, Vladimir Putin is one of the world's most enigmatic figures. This is his Russia. Internationally admired for her fearless reporting, award-winning journalist Anna Politkovskaya turns her steely gaze on President Putin and his early regime in this explosive book. From Putin's tyrannical grip on ordinary citizens to rampant corruption in highest ranks of the government, as well as Mafi...

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Death and the Penguin

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by Andrey Kurkov

Harvill Press

In today's Ukraine, all that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin. Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. He longs to see his work published, yet the subjects of his obituaries continue to cling to life. But when he opens the newspaper to see...

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Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy

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by Browder, Bill

Transworld Publishers

November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world's most successful hedge funds. Magnitsky's brutal...

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Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future

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by Alexievich, Svetlana

Penguin

The startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015. A new translation based on the revised text. On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the acci...

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About Ukraine

The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

Ukraine Hand Flag

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Ukraine Diaries

Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

Border Wars: The conflicts of tomorrow

Grey Bees

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin

Ukraine - Moldova F&B Road Map

A Matter of Death and Life

Worth Dying for: The Power and Politics of Flags

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

Putin's Russia: The Definitive Account Of Putin's Rise To Power

Death and the Penguin

Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy

Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future

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