Zpěv sirén - Putování do srdce ukrajinské války – Forró Tomáš (2025)

Experienced Slovak reporter Tomáš Forró offers an unvarnished, multifaceted view of the conflict unfolding in Ukraine, which defies the usual media portrayal of this war. Personal experiences and engagement, rational analysis of events on the battlefield and in the rear. Meanwhile, just beyond our borders, more chapters of this harsh story are unfolding. Thanks to The Sirens' Song, we can glimpse this war without rose-colored glasses, without the pathos and myths that surround it.
Tomáš Forró works along the entire front line, in bombed cities, among soldiers in the trenches, and among starving civilians reliant on humanitarian aid. Influenced by the extreme situation at the Slovak-Ukrainian border after February 2023, he gradually transformed from a journalist into a volunteer, and then into a direct participant in combat operations.
The book The Sirens' Song is not a chronological chronicle of the Russian-Ukrainian clashes, a list of heroic deeds, or the cruelties of one side or the other. It is a painful and sincere probe into a world not far from us. We will visit all the battlefields of the Ukrainian conflict, experienced through the eyes of direct participants. Whether they are passionate fighters or deserters, collaborators, patriots, victims of bombings, or those who loot houses and steal...