AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Telegraph Best Book of the Year 'An intense evocative portrait
of one of the most remarkable figures of our era' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the Zelensky book
we've been waiting for' CATHERINE BELTON THE TIMES : A BEST BOOK OF 2024 - NEXT YEAR'S TOP
READS GUARDIAN : BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 INDEPENDENT : A BOOK OF THE MONTH Written with
unprecedented access this is the first inside intimate account of the Russian invasion of
Ukraine from the perspective of President Zelensky and his team. Based on four years of
reporting extensive travels with President Zelensky to the front and dozens of interviews
with him his wife his friends and enemies his advisers ministers and military commanders
The Showman tells an intimate and eye-opening story of the President's evolution from a
slapstick actor to a symbol of resilience revealing how he managed to rally the world's
democracies behind his cause. Clear-eyed about the President's early failures as a peacemaker
and his willingness to silence political dissent the book offers a complex picture of a man
struggling to break what he sees as a historical cycle of oppression that began generations
before he was born. Even as the war drags on Zelensky lays out his vision for its future
course and through his actions demonstrates his strategy for countering the Russians and
keeping the West on his side. The result is a riveting up-close picture of the invasion as
experienced by its number one target and improbable hero. The Showman as a work of eyewitness
journalism provides an essential perspective on the war defining our age. As a study in
leadership and human resolve its appeal is timeless and universal. 'Intimate but unflinchingly
objective this biography gives you a seat at Zelensky's war cabinet and penetrates his mind as
he battles to save Ukraine's freedom-and ours' Peter Pomerantsev author of Nothing Is True and
Everything Is Possible
