by Lara Marlowe 
Published by Melville House
February 4, 2025
312 pages
ISBN 9781685891879
Review by TBD
Publishing on the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine: The
gripping, heartrending story, told in her own words, of a formidable
29-year-old woman serving as a commander on the front lines of the War
in Ukraine — and an intimate, hair-raising look at modern warfare . . .
Lieutenant
Yulia Mykytenko, a commander in the Ukrainian army serving on the front
line of battle, embodies her country’s resistance to the Russian
invasion. When her father self-immolated on Maidan Square in central
Kyiv in an act of protest, she held a press conference to explain to
journalists that he acted “in sound mind.” Later, in battle on the front
line, she would learn via radio-phone that her husband had been killed
nearby.
In 2023, veteran war correspondent Lara Marlowe met
Mykytenko while covering the war, and found her to be “one of the most
extraordinary people I have interviewed in 42 years of journalism.” From
their months of conversations, Marlowe stitched together Mykytenko’s
accounts into a riveting revelation of what modern warfare is really
like.
Told entirely in Mykytenko’s first person voice, it is a
story of cluster bombs and ballistic missiles. Mykytenko has most
recently commanded a drone unit, and the scenes of launching drone
attacks, and of being attacked by drones, are electrifying and
harrowing. At the same time there are vestiges of WWII: trench warfare,
no-man’s lands seeded with mines, even chemical weapons.
The
result is an urgent story of a besieged nation, a vivid look at the
changing face of warfare, and the stirring tale of an inspirational
woman fighting for her country’s survival.
Source: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/780284/how-good-it-is-i-have-no-fear-of-dying-by-lara-marlowe/
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