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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 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.
View and download our free You Don't Know What War Is resources below.
‘Yeva speaks a truth that all of us, young and old, must listen to’
- Michael Morpugo
‘The most important story of our times told from the inside by the best narrator: a wise twelve-year old girl’
- Viv Groskop
‘Her story will endure long after this terrible war ends’
- Lord Alf Dubs
‘Exhilarating, shattering, heartbreaking, brilliant’
- Roddy Doyle
‘This book has touched my heart. Everyone, absolutely everyone, should read it.’
- Christy Lefteri
To mark the publication of You Don’t Know What War Is, Bloomsbury Publishing pledges to match donations of up to £10,000 to support the work of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
Every donation, no matter how big or small, can help make a difference for people like Yeva who are fleeing conflict and persecution around the world.
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