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You Don't Know What War Is
- The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine
- Narrated by: Keira Knightley, Michael Morpurgo - foreword
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Bloomsbury presents You Don't Know What War Is by Yeva Skalietska, read by Keira Knightley.
Everyone knows the word 'war'. But very few understand what it truly means. When you find you have to face it, you feel totally lost, walled in by fright and despair. Until you’ve been there, you don’t know what war is.
Published in association with the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, with a foreword written and read by Michael Morpurgo.
This is the gripping, urgent and moving diary of young Ukrainian refugee Yeva Skalietska. It follows twelve days in Ukraine that changed 12-year-old Yeva's life forever. She was woken in the early hours to the terrifying sounds of shelling. Russia had invaded Ukraine, and her beloved Kharkiv home was no longer the safe haven it should have been. It was while she and her granny were forced to seek shelter in a damp, cramped basement that Yeva decided to write down her story. And it is a story that the world needs to hear.
Yeva captured the nation's heart when she was featured on Channel 4 News with her granny as they fled Ukraine for Dublin. In You Don't Know What War Is, Yeva records what is happening hour-by-hour as she seeks safety and travels from Kharkiv to Dublin. You Don’t Know What War Is is a powerful insight into what conflict is like through the eyes of a child and an essential book for adults and older children alike.
Critic Reviews
"Yeva speaks a truth that all of us, young and old, must listen to." (Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse)
"This book has touched my heart in a way that I am finding hard to put into words. Everyone, absolutely everyone, should read it. You will love Yeva." (Christy Lefteri, No.1 international bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo)
"The most important story of our times told from the inside by the best narrator: a wise twelve-year-old girl." (Viv Groskop, comedian, writer and podcaster)