If Russia Wins

<p><b>**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**</b><br><b><br>A <i>New Statesman </i>Book of the Year</b><br><b>A <i>Le Monde</i> Best Book of 2025<br><br>''Amazing ... My book of the year'' Alastair Campbell, <i>The Rest Is Politics</i></b><br><b>''So compelling ... So plausible'' <i>New Statesman</i><br>''Chilling'' <i>Financial Times</i></b><br><b>''Blistering'' <i>Economist</i><br></b><b><i>''</i>A cracking book ... Reads like a thriller'' Matt Frei, <i>LBC </i></b><br><br>March 2028: Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea. After victory in Ukraine, Putin''s long-mooted encroachment into the Baltic states has begun. Europe''s slow rearmament and its compromised military and intelligence capabilities is now clear for its enemies to exploit. Does Article 5 of NATO apply? What will the alliance decide? Will they risk nuclear war?<br><br>In <i>If Russia Wins</i>, military expert and Professor of International Relations at the University of Munich, Carlo Masala explores these questions and underlines what is at stake in Ukraine in the starkest possible terms.<br><br>For those of us who have only ever known peace, we are accustomed to everything turning out well in the end. But what if it doesn''t?<br><br><b>Translated from the German by Olena Ebel and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp.</b></p>