Danielle Leavitt with Sasha Senderovich

While the war in Ukraine continues to grab news headlines, the daily lives of Ukrainians remain opaque and mostly anonymous. What is it really like to live there during wartime? Historian Danielle Leavitt answers that question in her book, By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine. By going beyond familiar portraits of wartime heroism and victimhood, Leavitt reveals the human experience of the conflict.

A U.S. citizen who grew up in Ukraine, Leavitt draws on her deep familiarity with the country and online diaries [...]