The Oxford and Cambridge Club in London hosted a presentation of the book “Around the War in Twenty Stories” by British-Ukrainian writer Anna Shevchenko during the Volunteer Appreciation Night.
The book contains 20 stories of ordinary Ukrainians — from a teacher who teaches classes in a bomb shelter and librarians who hid Ukrainian books during the occupation of Kherson to an equestrian champion who lost her horse in Bucha and a little girl named Milan who shares the last thing she has — candy she is bringing from a bombed-out city.
Representatives of the British government, business, culture, education, the Ukrainian diaspora, heads of charitable foundations, well-known journalists, and military personnel who train Ukrainian soldiers attended the presentation and honoring of the volunteers. The event’s guests included the heads of the Royal Opera House, the British Library, the National Archives, etc.
The author presented all the evening participants with the twenty-story book Around the War as a gift from Ukraine and Ukrainians.
The book was also presented to Her Majesty the Queen, the staff of the headquarters that trains the Ukrainian military, the head of the Ukraine section of the British Foreign Office, the Office of the Prime Minister of Great Britain, members of the British Parliament — Baroness Kennedy, Boris Johnson, and former Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace.
