War from the Rear

Reviews / Votes

"Ukraine's remarkable resistance to Russia's invasion is a true people's war. This is a country that does not look to politicians to tell them what to do. The country survives because people take agency and work with each other to get weapons to the front, supply hospitals, organise partisan movements and help refugees. Lyubka tells the stories of soccer players and coffee roasters, priests and Roma who are all playing their role in this great community of resistance. In the thing once known as 'the West' we often lament the loss of community-in Ukraine it is thriving and winning against the invasion of a cruel Empire. Lyubka brings it alive in prose that is unsentimental yet totally inspiring." - Peter Pomerantsev, the author of This is Not Propaganda


"An author and a war. Real-life autobiographical nonfiction road movie by and about a writer who supplied the army with 400 jeeps. Amazing story about amazing people.

How to deliver 400 jeeps to the front lines for the Ukrainian army and stay alive? In this book you will find answers to questions that you do not yet know exist.

This book is an eye-opener about the amazing interaction between the front and the rear in Ukraine from the cult writer Andriy Lyubka, who became one of the initiators of 'army crowdfunding.'" - Andrey Kurkov, author of Death and the Penguin


"Delicate, tender, sharply observed vignettes of the Russo-Ukrainian war told from the inside - unexpected and profoundly humane" - Charlotte Higgins, editor-in-chief of The Guardian