Harding delves into the ideological, religious and personal reasons really driving Putin's strategy for war, and confronts a crucial question: what will be the end game of this unprecedented invasion? Written in Luke Harding's starkly transfixing style, this is an urgent, vivid and powerful account of the largest armed conflict in Europe since 1945. Having warned correctly about Putin's dark and adventurist ambitions, his analysis of the war's consequences for Kyiv, Moscow and the world makes for essential reading.