Book Kestrels
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The new book by the famous Ukrainian writer - the action-packed historical novel Borivitry - is the final part of the trilogy Blood of the Feast, an epic about the path and choice of Ukrainians in the horrors of the 20th century and the hopeful first years of the 21st century - perhaps the only study of this scale in Ukrainian literature.
The novel takes place in Western Ukraine and Naddniprianshchyna from 1943 to the Euromaidan. Among the characters in the book are the leaders of the OUN and UPA Roman Shukhevych, Vasyl Kuk, Mykola Lebed, the Head of the OUN Security Service «Mykhailo» —1 Mykola Arsenych, the UPA Commander &Dmytro Klyachkivsky, Klym Savur and his associates, the centurion Kretshet and his brothers. As well as the enemies of Ukrainians and their henchmen who never realised they were Ukrainians - Nikita Khrushchev, Oleksiy Kyrychenko, Mykola Pidhornyi, Petro Shelest, Leonid Brezhnev.
Is there life after defeat? Is there a place for heroism in the mire of everyday life? Was Yurko Stelmashchuk —«Red» really a traitor? Why was the kurin Antoniuk — «Sosenko» shot? Was Reich Commissar Erich Koch, the executioner of the Ukrainian people, an agent of Stalin? Was Nikolai Kuznetsov Stalin's messenger to Koch, a hero or a provocateur? The answers to these and many other questions are in your hands!
The book also reveals unknown pages of Ukrainian history related to the opening of the Monument in honour of the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia in Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi.



