The Quiet That Remains
Survival, Silence, and the Story of a Ukrainian Family
By Ben Skliar-Ward
Hardback and ebook available now · Paperback 2026
About the Book
As war once again engulfs Ukraine, The Quiet That Remains offers a powerful and timely portrait of how everyday lives endured a century of occupation, repression, and exile. This true, first-hand account of one family – psalmists, villagers, refugees – traces the experience of Ukraine's turbulent twentieth century through ordinary lives.
Drawing on parish records, Soviet archives, and personal papers from early twentieth-century Ukraine, it reveals how Ukrainian identity survived through ritual, memory, and silence. From the fall of the Cossack Hetmanate to the Holodomor, Nazi occupation, and Cold War exile in Britain, this book reflects the quiet resilience of millions.
Rigorous, lyrical, and deeply humane, The Quiet That Remains is a landmark work of history – a rare glimpse into the cost of survival when nations are silenced and the past must be pieced together from fragments.
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1940: Viktor’s conscription papers, issued just before the front shifted again. One of thousands of fragments tracing Ukraine’s century between empires.
From The Quiet That Remains, a history of Ukraine in the twentieth century.