The Truth About the War in Ukraine: Matt Gallagher
Undercurrent Stories
English - March 28, 2024 14:00 - 47 minutes - 33 MBDocumentary Society & Culture stories interests passions hobbies discovery history environmental music books fitness Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
How much do you know about what’s going in Ukraine? Obviously we get daily news bulletins from the mainstream media which give a view on major events but what about the stuff we don't hear about?
What everyday life is like for civilians?
Why people from other countries volunteer either on a humanitarian basis or as a soldier? What are their backgrounds? How are they received?
How do the Ukrainian people see an end to the war?
To help answer these questions and many more, I am joined by Matt Gallagher. Matt is a US Army veteran who volunteered and helped civilians at the start of the war in 2022 and then returned again in 2023 as a journalist. His experiences led him to publish his fourth novel, Daybreak which takes place in present day Ukraine and features a disillusioned American volunteering for the war and to reconnect with a woman from his past.
I found the novel very powerful as it is set in the present with a war still going on. It certainly helped me understand it from a human level.
I hope you enjoy the episode, that it helps further your own understanding and answers some of those unanswered questions.
Links:
http://mattgallagherwriter.com/about/
https://www.instagram.com/mattgallagher0/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gallagher_(author)
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Daybreak/Matt-Gallagher/9781501177859
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