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Referenced as 'the very first work of history ever written' when discussing how the land now called Ukraine first appears in historical records, describing the Persian king Darius trying to conquer the Scythians

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Referenced when discussing how Ukraine is often thought of as part of 'what the historian Timothy Snyder calls the bloodlands' - regions including Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland that were fought over by Hitler and Stalin

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Described as 'an absolutely brilliant book' by Philippe Sands, the human rights lawyer, about the extermination of the Jews in Lviv and his family history connection to the region

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Described as 'a brilliant novel' that captures the chaos of the Russian Civil War period in Ukraine, when Kiev changed hands 16 times in two years with different armies entering the city

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Referenced when discussing Ivan Mazepa, the Cossack leader - Tom mentions that Byron wrote 'an entire poem about him' set in the aftermath of the Battle of Poltava