{"product_id":"how-good-it-is-i-lara-marlowe-9781685891879","title":"How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko's Fight for Ukraine","description":"\u003cb\u003ePublishing 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 . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLieutenant Yulia Mykytenko, a commander in the Ukrainian army serving on the front line of battle, embodies the country's resistance to the Russian invasion. When her father self-immolated on Maidan Square, Kyiv, in an act of protest, she held a press conference to explain to journalists that he acted \"in sound mind.\" When she heard -- via radio-phone on the front line -- that her husband had been killed nearby, she had to keep fighting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\" So, she kept on interviewing her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 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, ballistic missiles, and drones. Mykytenko, in fact, most recently has 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lara Marlowe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 168589187X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781685891879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Melville House Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Lara Marlowe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46293269479679,"sku":"9781685891879","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_00a51579-9993-4b30-8878-a37380b8148f.jpg?v=1730212766","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-good-it-is-i-lara-marlowe-9781685891879","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}