A Loss: The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister

Dr Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer. She received her PhD in History from University College London. She has taught the history of East-Central Europe at the University of Cambridge, University College London, the University of East Anglia, and King's College London. She is author of 'Undetermined' Ukrainians. Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS 'Galicia' Division (Peter Lang, 2013).

"Grappling. I admire a book that invites me to grapple with knotty questions. Olesya Khromeychuk has written such a book-beautifully. Feminism and drones. Funerals and theater. Shrapnel and combat boots-size 8. 'A Loss' explores the lures of militarism at a granular level."-Professor Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War "Moving, intelligent, and brilliantly written, this is a sister's reckoning with a lost brother, an émigré's with the country of her childhood, and a scholar's with her own suddenly acutely personal subject matter. A wonderful combination of emotional and intellectual honesty; very sad and direct but also rigorous and nuanced. It even manages to be funny."-Anna Reid, author of Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine "There has always been too much silence around the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine-Europe's forgotten war. Olesya Khromeychuk refuses to bend to this silence. In vivid, intimate prose and with unflinching honesty, she introduces us to the brother she lost in the war and found in her grief. Poignant, wise, and unforgettable."-Dr Rory Finnin, University of Cambridge