War Came To Us

Christopher Miller is a writer and journalist based in Kyiv, Ukraine and Brooklyn, New York. Since 2022 he has been lead correspondent in Ukraine for the Financial Times. He was previously a reporter for POLITICO and a Ukraine correspondent for BuzzFeed News.As editor at the Kyiv Post, he was part of the team that won the Missouri Honor Medal Winner for Distinguished Service in Journalism for coverage of the Euromaidan Revolution, Russia's annexation of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine.

• Author’s NoteMapsA Brief History of UkraineProloguePart one: Peace1 American Boy2 Friends3 A Darker Side of the Donbas4 Acts of JournalismPart two: Revolution and Annexation5 Euromaidan6 “Little Green Men”7 Voting Under The GunPart three: War8 “Russian Spring”9 Stamps10 “Look at Our Republic”11 “Some Fucking Militia”12 Volunteer Battalions13 “Live in a New Way”14 “This is a War Now”15 Executioners16 Fields of Death17 The Launch Site18 “The First Real Independence Day”19 The Supply Runner20 City of Ghosts21 POWs22 The Body Collectors23 City of a Million Roses24 Left Behind25 The Woman in the Grass26 The Cossack Bomb Squad27 PTSDPart four: Full-Scale Invasion28 Warning Signs29 Servant of the People30 Keep Calm and Party On31 The Battle of Kyiv32 Control the Skies33 “Who would like some tea?”34 “Ya tut”35 Heroes36 Escape37 “It feels like I’m doing something wrong”38 The Brothers Vyshyvaniy39 Savagery40 A Storm on the Horizon41 Trouble at Sea42 Siege43 Filtration44 Summertime in the City45 The Battle of the Donbas46 “The Terrorists are Destroying Everything”47 Missiles48 “Fortress Bakhmut”49 “To Peace”50 “I. Love. You.”AcknowledgementsIndex

A beautiful blend of memoir, reportage and history...superb: a pulsing, immersive narrative of boots-on-the-ground reporting. The War Came To Us is an important book, and a testament to the importance of quality journalism. Miller is dogged in his reporting, and a fine writer. He has the right amounts of courage, intellectual honesty, chutzpah, self-effacing humour and talent, reminding this reader of AJ Liebling’s superlative collection of second World War writings.