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A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people in their resistance by Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal."Our Enemies Will Vanish achieves the highest level of war reporting: a tough, detailed account that nevertheless reads like a great novel. One is reminded of Michael Herr's Dispatches... Frankly, it's what we have all aspired to. I did not really understand Ukraine until I read Trofimov's account." --Sebastian JungerSince Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war's decisive moments--from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut--to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against Russia, one of the world's great military powers, in a modern-day battle of David and Goliath. Putin had intended to conquer and annex Ukraine with a vicious blitzkrieg, redrawing the map of Europe in a few short weeks with seismic geopolitical consequences. But in the face of this existential threat, the Ukrainian people fought back, turning what looked like certain defeat into a great moral victory, even as the territorial battle continues to seesaw to this day. This is the story of the epic bravery of the Ukrainian people--people Trofimov knows very well.For Trofimov, this war is deeply personal. He grew up in Kyiv and his family has lived there for generations. With deep empathy and local understanding, Trofimov tells the story of how everyday Ukrainian citizens--doctors, computer programmers, businesspeople, and schoolteachers--risked their lives and lost loved ones. He blends their brave and tragic stories with expert military analysis, providing unique insight into the thinking of Ukrainian leadership and mapping out the decisive stages of what has become a perilous war for Ukraine, the Putin regime, and indeed, the world.This brutal, catastrophic struggle is unfolding on another continent, but the United States and its NATO allies have become deeply implicated. As the war drags on, it threatens to engulf the world. We cannot look away. At once heart-breaking and inspiring, Our Enemies Will Vanish is a riveting, vivid, and first-hand account of the Ukrainian refusal to surrender. It is the story of ordinary people fighting not just for their homes and their families but for justice and democracy itself.

Seventeen-year-old Deborah Rosenbaum, ambitious and in love with literature, arrives in the capital of the new Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kharkiv, 1930, to make her own fate as a modern woman. The stale and forbidding ways of the past are out; it's a new dawn, the Soviet era, where skyscrapers go up overnight. Deborah finds work and meets a dashing young officer named Samuel who is training to become a fighter pilot. They fall in love, and she becomes pregnant.But Deborah's prospects - and Ukraine's - soon dim. Famine plagues the over-harvested countryside, and any deviation from Moscow-dictated ideology is punished by without warning, Samuel is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Deborah is on her own with a baby. And this is only the beginning.Germany and Russia mobilize, and Ukraine becomes the no-man's-land during World War II, where its yellow fields of wheat run red with blood. Caught in the middle, like her country, Deborah must do whatever it takes to survive. Not only to protect herself, but also her increasingly observant mother and her increasingly anti-Semitic young son, who is being raised as a Russian. Deborah must change her name, renounce her religion, marry a man she doesn't love, and face the possibility of giving up on all her dreams.

Am Morgen des 20. November 1979 besetzen bewaffnete Rebellen die Große Moschee in Mekka und fordern eine Abkehr Saudi-Arabiens vom Westen sowie einen radikalen Wandel in der muslimischen Welt. Dieser Vorfall markiert den Beginn des ersten modernen islamistischen Terrorakts und wird zur Geburtsstunde von al-Qaida und dem globalen Dschihad. Eine fanatische Gruppe unter dem charismatischen Anführer Dschuhaiman stürmt die heiligste Stätte, nimmt Tausende Pilger als Geiseln und stellt die Saud-Dynastie in Frage. Nur eine Fatwa der obersten Gelehrten erlaubt dem Königshaus, mit Waffengewalt gegen die Rebellen vorzugehen. Nach zwei verlustreichen Wochen wird das Gelände zurückerobert, und Dschuhaiman sowie seine Anhänger werden öffentlich hingerichtet. Um ihr Ansehen zu wahren, setzt die saudische Regierung eine konservative Auslegung der heiligen Schriften durch, die Dschuhaiman gefordert hatte, und fördert den Kampf gegen Ungläubige, einschließlich der sowjetischen Truppen, die im Dezember 1979 in Afghanistan einmarschieren. Einer der ersten Radikalen, die Dschuhaiman bewunderten und Saudi-Arabien in Richtung Hindukusch verließen, war der 22-jährige Osama bin Laden. Ein Nahostexperte analysiert, wie der Gotteskrieg zu einem globalen Phänomen wurde, gestützt auf geheime CIA-Akten und Aussagen von Beteiligten.

Drawing on reporting from more than a dozen Islamic countries, "Wall Street Journal" reporter Trofimov offers an unforgettable portrait of the Muslim world after September 11. What emerges is a penetrating portrait of people, faith, and countries.