20 Top nonfiction books like The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World by Iuliia Mendel

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The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World

By: Iuliia Mendel

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Moving.” — The Washington Post When Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel got the call she had been …

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1. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

2. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933

By: Anne Applebaum

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction

3. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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4. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

By: Timothy Garton Ash

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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6. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

By: Timothy Snyder

4.36

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the ris… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"For the reporters, the heroes of our time"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"In 1976, Stephen King published a short story, “I Know What You Need,"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"Міф Жовтневої революції обіцяв усе; міф Великої Вітчизняної війни не обіцяв нічого."

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

"When [Ivan] Ilyin wrote that the art of politics was “identifying and neutralizing the enemy,"

-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

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7. You Don’t Know What War Is

By: Yeva Skalietska

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An important, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful memoir about the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war as t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • ukraine
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine

By: Mark Galeotti

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A timely and accessible history of how Putin and the conflicts he has chosen to involve Russia in h… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
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9. I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country

By: Elena Kostyuchenko

4.41

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia and a fearless cri de coeur for journalism in oppo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955

By: Harald Jähner

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger

By: Tony Tetro

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The world’s most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the ma… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. A Warning

By: Anonymous

3.93

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior offic… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Legislators, regardless of party, have an obligation to monitor the executive branch. They should do so fairly and respectfully, but above all, they should do so."

-Anonymous, A Warning

"In the history of American democracy, we have had undisciplined presidents. We have had inexperienced presidents. We have had amoral presidents. Rarely if ever before have we had them all at once."

-Anonymous, A Warning

"Republicans gave the keys to the kingdom to a man who paid hush money to shut up a porn star he'd been sleeping with while married to his third wife, who'd recently given birth to their son. Are we s…"

-Anonymous, A Warning

"I was wrong about the "quiet resistance" inside the Trump administration. Unelected bureaucrats and cabinet appointees were never going to steer Donald Trump in the right direction in the long run, o…"

-Anonymous, A Warning

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13. Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate

By: Mary Elise Sarotte

4.25

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

A leading expert on Cold War foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival

By: Luke Harding

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding's personal, front… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story

By: Victoria Belim

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A timely and deeply moving memoir of the author’s Ukrainian family history, interwoven with the cou… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • ukraine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"You cannot escape what you pretend doesn't hold you. You cannot be free if you are afraid of confronting reality."

-Victoria Belim, The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story

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16. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

By: Simon Shuster

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Time  correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine

By: Christopher Miller

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine's past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of t… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
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18. The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World

By: Iuliia Mendel

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Moving.” — The Washington Post When Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel got the call she had been … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. A Message from Ukraine

By: Volodymyr Zelensky

4.64

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

An urgent call to arms from Time’s Person of the Year, the Ukrainian leader whose unwavering courag… read more

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  • history
  • politics
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  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Ukraine did not seek greatness. But Ukraine has become great."

-Volodymyr Zelensky, A Message from Ukraine

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20. The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner

By: David Herszenhorn

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin’s nemesis Alexey Navalny— lawyer, blogger, anti-corruptio… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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21. The Zelensky Effect (New Perspectives on Eastern Europe and Eurasia)

By: Olga Onuch

4.15

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

With Russian shells raining on Kyiv and tanks closing in, American forces prepared to evacuate Ukra… read more

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  • biography
  • politics
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction

13 must-read audiobook books like The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World by Iuliia Mendel

Transform Your Habits

Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

Timothy Garton Ash

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Timothy Snyder

4.36

Transform Your Habits

You Don’t Know What War Is

Yeva Skalietska

3.89

Transform Your Habits

I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country

Elena Kostyuchenko

4.41

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26 Top history books like The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine by Christopher Miller

Transform Your Habits

Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin

Clifford G. Gaddy , Fiona Hill

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Our Enemies Will Vanish

Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

Serhii Plokhy

4.30

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Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

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