Life in Wartime

26 real and harrowing testimonies from the war in Ukraine

This book does not aim to be a work about geopolitics, history, or politics; it is a book about human beings. Women and men who share their testimonies in the first person with extraordinary honesty and generosity. Within these pages you will find deeply harrowing stories, and more than one will undoubtedly shake and move you:
>Every testimony is chilling and conveys, in vivid detail, experiences pushed to the limit a mosaic of lesser-known stories that lay bare the horror of war. These are stories that touch the reader's soul, and the book culminates in an exceptional journalistic piece: an interview with Volodymyr Zelensky himself.

My name is David Castillo. Throughout my life I have conducted hundreds of interviews on radio and television. The interviews you will find in this book have been the most difficult of my career, the result of many months of work, perseverance, and investigation.

In this book, I present to you life: life in times of war.