About the Book…
When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine just before dawn on 24 February 2022, it marked his latest and most overt attempt to brutally conquer the country, and reshaped the world order. Christopher Miller, the Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times and a foremost journalist covering the country, was there on the ground when the first Russian missiles struck and troops stormed over the border. But the seeds of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the West were sown more than a decade earlier.
This is the definitive, inside story of its long fight for freedom. Told through Miller’s personal experiences, vivid front-line dispatches and illuminating interviews with unforgettable characters, The War Came To Us takes readers on a riveting journey through the key locales and pivotal events of Ukraine’s modern history. From the coal-dusted, sunflower-covered steppe of the Donbas in the far east to the heart of the Euromaidan revolution camp in Kyiv; from the Black Sea shores of Crimea, where Russian troops stealthily annexed Ukraine’s peninsula, to the bloody battlefields where Cossacks roamed before the Kremlin’s warlords ruled with iron fists; and through the horror and destruction wrought by Russian forces in Bucha, Bakhmut, Mariupol, and beyond.
With candor, wit and sensitivity, Miller captures Ukraine in all its glory: vast, defiant, resilient, and full of wonder. A breathtaking narrative that is at times both poignant and inspiring, The War Came To Us is the story of an American who fell in love with a foreign place and its people – and witnessed them do extraordinary things to escape the long shadow of their former imperial ruler and preserve their independence.
About the Author
Christopher Miller is an American writer and journalist who has reported from Ukraine and across Eastern Europe for more than 13 years. When he’s not in Kyiv or on the front lines in the Donbas, he lives with his wife and two Ukrainian cats in Brooklyn, New York.
Since 2022, Miller has been the lead correspondent in Ukraine for the Financial Times covering Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country. He was previously a world and national security reporter for POLITICO, senior world correspondent for BuzzFeed News, and correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Kyiv. Miller has reported from the front lines of Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and the Kremlin’s invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. He was part of the Kyiv Post team that received the 2014 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism for on-the-ground coverage of the revolution. In 2023, his work was shortlisted with FT colleagues for the British Journalism Awards’ best foreign affairs journalism for coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
