The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich

The Unwomanly Face of War

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Svetlana Alexievich with Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced

384 pages | first published 1983

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This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in it, describing how young girls, who dreamed of becoming brides, became soldiers in 1941. More than 500,000 Soviet women participated on a par with ...
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