Undefeatable

''This is the account we''ve been starved of: an insight into Ukraine from an authoritative British writer who has skin in the country’s game.‘Odesa is my discovered heart,’ confesses Julian Evans, who fell in love with a woman from this constantly beguiling Black Sea port andstarted a family there,‘the place that''s given me what I need for more than twenty-five years.’ An outsider turned insider, his deep personalinvolvement compelled him to the front line of an unprovoked war without precedent in Europe for nearly eighty years. His vivid, first-handreportage shows how Odesa’s story is inseparable from Ukraine’s – and more than that, how it has become our story too.'' Nicholas Shakespeare