<p><b>"[A] masterpiece . . . <i>Babi Yar</i> [is] every bit the peer of the canonical works of witness [such as] Anne Frank''s diary . . . Wiesel''s <i>Night </i>. . . Solzhenityn''s <i>Gulag Archipelago</i>.</b><b>" ¿George Packer, <i>The Atlantic</i></b><br><b><br>An internationally acclaimed documentary novel that describes the fateful collision of Russia, Ukraine, and Nazi Germany, and one of the largest mass executions of the Holocaust, with a new introduction by Masha Gessen.</b><br><br><i>¿I wonder if we shall ever understand that the most precious thing in this world is a man¿s life and his freedom? Or is there still more barbarism ahead? With these questions I think I shall bring this book to an end. I wish you peace. And freedom.¿</i><br><br>At the age of twelve, Anatoly Kuznetsov experienced the Nazi invasion of Ukraine, and soon began keeping a diary of the brutal occupation of Kiev that followed. Years later, he combined those notebooks with other survivors¿ memories to cr