A new book by Serhiy Plokhy, one of the most famous Ukrainian historians, a professor at Harvard University, is devoted primarily to understanding the Great War. Here are the most significant interviews and conversations of the author from 2021 to 2024. The range of topics covered covers key topical issues that concern Ukrainians and everyone in the world who is not indifferent to our heroic resistance: why the aggressor failed the blitzkrieg, the European context of the war and the destruction of the world order, how the war can end and with what consequences, etc. A sober view of the historian from the perspective of decades and centuries can serve as a healing counterweight to the maelstrom of passions that naturally accompanies today's endless descriptions and assessments of current events.