Borderland: A journey into Ukraine

Send us Fan MailAnna Reid, author of Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine  writes about the history of Ukraine in a prosaic story of the people who through the centuries have claimed Ukraine as home.  From saber rattling Cossacks to Kiev Rus, to Poles, Jews, Lithuanians and Crimean Tatars  all who have walked and fought in Ukraine have woven a tale of hardship, endurance and determination to become a a fiercely proud Ukrainian people.     Borderland is an entertainingly informative book to understand Ukraine, past, present, and future and why the independence of Ukraine is so important to Europe and the United States.