Books

Our Enemies Will Vanish

Our Enemies Will Vanish is a stunning work of eyewitness reportage and literary nuance that brings alive both the brutalities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war’s small absurdities and comic interludes. Only a Ukrainian native with Trofimov’s wide experience of covering war could have delivered such a clear-eyed and memorable book — an instant classic.”
— Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S.

No Country for Love

"Tough, lean, and unsentimental, No Country for Love is a powerful moral testament that reads like a thriller, as its impressive heroine learns to do what is necessary, day by day, in order to endure one of the most harrowing passages of the 20th century. It is also an unsparing account of the tribulations of ordinary Ukrainians, from the Holomodor, through the horrors of World War II, to the death of Stalin. By turns terrifying, tender, and inspiring, this gripping and necessary novel illuminates the origins of a story whose latest chapters are being played out before the world even today."
― James Hynes, author of Next and Sparrow

The Siege of Mecca

„At dawn on November 20 1979, the first day of the new Muslim millennium, hundreds of armed jihadists from more than a dozen countries stormed Mecca’s Grand Mosque – Islam’s holiest site. They bolted the 39 doors and announced to the more than 100,000 worshippers trapped inside that their aim was to overthrow the Saudi royal family and usher in a new Islamic era.

Yaroslav Trofimov’s The Siege of Mecca, based on a wealth of information amassed from classified documents and face-to-face interviews, offers a gripping, highly informed narrative of this momentous event.”

— Financial Times

Faith at War

"Yaroslav Trofimov writes in such an eloquent and vivid way that, while reading this fascinating book, we involuntarily travel with its author through the lands of Islam. It is an immensely instructive expedition inside a world that amazes us with its richness, variety, and astonishing paradoxes."
― Ryszard Kapuscinski