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When Samuel is sentenced to ten years' hard labour, Debora is left on her own with a baby. As advancing Nazi armies move through Ukraine, its yellow fields of wheat run red with blood. Forced to renounce the man she loves, her identity and even her name, Debora also learns to endure, manipulate and resist.   No Country for Love follows the hard choices Debora makes as Ukraine, caught between two totalitarian ideologies, turns into the deadliest place in the world - while she tries to protect those she loves most.   'Doctor Zhivago meets Stalingrad - a mix of romantic historical fiction and gritty, reportage-like storytelling... The history is spot-on, going from pre-Communist times, through World War II, to the era of Stalin and after. 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With thousands of terrified worshippers trapped inside, the result was a bloody siege that lasted two weeks, caused hundreds of deaths, prompted an international diplomatic crisis and unleashed forces that would eventually lead to the rise of al Qaeda.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJournalist Yaroslav Trofimov takes us day-by-day through one of the most momentous – and heavily censored – events in recent history, interviewing many direct participants in the siege and drawing on secret documents to reveal the truth about the first operation of modern global jihad.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224392708469,"sku":"9780141034065","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141034065_df94a8a8-01aa-42c0-b576-1c9214810b8f.jpg?v=1786011693"},{"product_id":"9781405957946","title":"Our Enemies Will Vanish","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE COMPELLING ACCOUNT FROM THE FRONT LINES OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PETERSON LITERARY PRIZE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A stunning work of eyewitness reportage and literary nuance. 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