Reading on the frontline: Ukrainian soldiers find inspiration in bibliotherapy for military morale

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“Ukrainian defenders today are intelligent, educated people who seek for development even during the war. In addition, reading at the front is almost the only way to relax and distract yourself from a stressful combat day.” – (ministry of culture and information policy of Ukraine) On January 2nd, 2023, American historian and specialist in eastern Europe Timothy Snyder published a post on X (formerly Twitter) with a photo of a Ukrainian soldier in a trench reading Snyder’s book The Road to Unfreedom. In the comment to the photograph, he wrote in Ukrainian: “the highest honor for an author is a...