Scott Reynolds Nelson

Nelson teaches history at the University of Georgia. His new book Oceans of Grain is available from Basic Books.

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Ukrainian Wheat Is Once Again Changing the Course of History

The forty-mile convoy that was stalled between Prybirsk and the airport northwest of Kyiv is a metaphor: for inattentive tank maintenance, for battalions dependent on artillery, and for a poorly-planned Blitzkrieg. Those tanks and supply...

By Scott Reynolds Nelson
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