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Many would never return.
Covering the invasion first-hand, journalist Tom Mutch
witnessed the forging of an 'iron generation' of young Ukrainians. With eyewitness
reporting from all the major battlegrounds and front lines, The Dogs of
Mariupol recounts the war's notorious encounters, such as the Siege of
Mariupol, but also uncovers untold stories, like the civilian guerrilla army
fighting overwhelming odds in Sumy.
This is not a triumphalist account of Ukraine's fight,
however. Powerful and uncompromising, it painstakingly documents the immense
human catastrophe wrought on Ukrainian society and the divisions between those
who fought and those who fled. It also delves deeper to answer important
questions: could the Russian plan to capture Kyiv have succeeded? Did Ukraine
make a fatal error by committing for so long to the defence of Bakhmut? And
with more western support, could Ukraine have won the war outright?
