![]() Genre audiobook Comment by Disdain from illiterate russians is a mark of quality nowadays. But a glimpse of an ethereally beautiful girl-and the power of the popular uprising boiling over in the streets of Moscow-take his life on a very different course. 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 read for adults and older children alike. A life of purpose and contented bourgeois respectability lies before young physician Yury Zhivago as he marries Tonya, his dearest friend. Each eye-opening diary entry is supplemented by personal photographs, excerpts of messages between Yeva and her friends and daily headlines from around the world, while three beautifully detailed maps (by Kharkiv-native Olga Shtonda) help the reader track Yeva and her granny’s journey through Europe. Thousands remain displaced in what is now the British Occupied Zone. 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. A superbly controlled emotional thriller of passion, betrayal and conscience, set in post-War Germany, soon to be made into a major film.Hamburg, 1946. Yeva captured the nation's heart when she was featured on Channel 4 News with her granny as they fled Ukraine for Dublin. Bloomsbury presents You Dont Know What War Is by Yeva Skalietska, read by Keira Knightley. And it is a story that the world needs to hear. Your Audible trial includes this free audiobook. 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. ![]() Russia had invaded Ukraine, and her beloved Kharkiv home was no longer the safe haven it should have been. She was woken in the early hours to the terrifying sounds of shelling. ![]() It follows twelve days in Ukraine that changed 12-year-old Yeva's life forever. This is the gripping, urgent and moving diary of young Ukrainian refugee Yeva Skalietska. Published in association with the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, with a foreword written and read by Michael Morpurgo. Until you’ve been there, you don’t know what war is. When you find you have to face it, you feel totally lost, walled in by fright and despair. But very few understand what it truly means. Bloomsbury presents You Don't Know What War Is by Yeva Skalietska, read by Keira Knightley.Įveryone knows the word 'war'.
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