David and Goliath: Commentaries on the Russo-Ukrainian War

by Serhii Plokhy

The biblical image of David and Goliath captures fittingly the nature of the war that Russia, the world's largest country by surface area, unleashed on neighboring Ukraine, a country that--while still the largest on the European continent--is almost thirty times smaller and has only over a quarter of Russia's population. Yet Ukraine's stubborn resistance proves that it is possible to mount a successful defense against an enormously larger, more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674301102
• ISBN13: 9780674301108
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
• Length: 350 Pages