The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of V.Zelensky - Simon Shuster - 9780008599171

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WRITTEN WITH UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS, THIS IS THE FIRST INSIDE, INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PRESIDENT ZELENSKY AND HIS TEAM.

Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels with President

Reviews:

"This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made" - ANNE APPLEBAUM

"This is the Zelensky book we’ve been waiting for" - CATHERINE BELTON

"An elegant account of the invasion’s first year as seen by those in the very eye of the storm" - DAILY TELEGRAPH

"Superb… in coming years, there may be [many] biographies of Zelensky… few, though, will better Shuster’s credentials. A fluent Russian speaker, he knew Zelensky’s team long before the war, remaining part of the inner circle when the president became the world’s most in-demand interviewee. In the invasion’s early days, he was among the few journalists allowed through the formidable security of the wartime bunker…The result is a vivid account of life beneath the ground at 11 Bankova Street in Kyiv… an elegant account of the invasion’s first year as seen by those in the very eye of the storm"