The Death of a Soldier told by His Sister - Olesya Khromeychuk talks with historian Roger Moorhouse

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Historian and writer, Olesya Khromeychuk's brother Volodymyr died on the frontline in eastern Ukraine. Please welcome Olesya to Tring to tell the story of her brother - the wiser older sibling, the thinker, the artist.
'Soon before he died, my brother said he had become a warrior. Why would a thinker, an artist, wish to become a soldier? Deeply moving and thoughtful, her book picks apart the ways political violence shapes everyone and everything it touches.
Killed by shrapnel as he served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Olesya Khromeychuk's brother Volodymyr died on the frontline in eastern Ukraine. As Olesya tries to come to terms with losing her brother, she also tries to process the Russian invasion of Ukraine: as an immigrant living far from the frontline, as a historian of war and how societies respond to them, and as a woman, a civilian, and a sister.
In this timely blend of memoir and essay, historian and writer Olesya Khromeychuk tells the story of her brother - the wiser older sibling, the artist and the soldier - and of his death. Deeply moving and thoughtful, The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister picks apart the ways political violence shapes everyone and everything it touches and depicts with extraordinary intimacy the singular and complicated bond between a brother and sister.

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What a beautiful woman!