War effect on book sales. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia aroused the interest of readers: to satisfy the desire to investigate the unresolved issues of the conflict, they appealed to the great names in literature and journalism. And in bookstores, the volumes that help to understand the current geopolitical scenarios climb the rankings ‘forcing’ publishers to reprint new books that have just been published or republished. This is the case of Adelphi who reproposed in paperback edition, in March of this year, ‘Putin’s Russia’ by the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, killed in Moscow on 7 October 2006. Published for the first time in Italy in 2005, and reproduced in ten editions, the essay was therefore offered again to readers immediately after the invasion of Russian troops started on 24 February last. And it was a success. The reportage – in which Politkovskaya warned “that Russia has already had rulers of this sort. And it ended in tragedy. In a bloodbath. In civil wars” – is now on the second step of the podium of the paperback rankings and at the ninth place in the general ranking of best-selling books. Not only. The boom, in fact, forced Adelphi to produce 6 editions in 7 weeks. The same goes for another title of the Milanese publishing house, Vasilij Grossman’s ‘Stalingrado’: the book ranks second in last week’s sales in the ‘Foreign Fiction’ ranking and is seventh in the overall ‘Top Ten’ of books. best sellers. Here too there is a good response from readers, so much so that Adelphi made 2 editions in three weeks.