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The Unwomanly Face of War (Paperback)
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The Unwomanly Face of War (Paperback)
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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'A must read' - Margaret Atwood 'It would be hard to find a book
that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, Observer
Extraordinary stories from Soviet women who fought in the Second
World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "Why,
having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely
male world, have women not stood up for their history? Their words
and feelings? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains
unknown... I want to write the history of that war. A women's
history." In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write
her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War, when she realized that
she grew up surrounded by women who had fought in the Second World
War but whose stories were absent from official narratives.
Travelling thousands of miles, she spent years interviewing
hundreds of Soviet women - captains, tank drivers, snipers, pilots,
nurses and doctors - who had experienced the war on the front
lines, on the home front and in occupied territories. As it brings
to light their most harrowing memories, this symphony of voices
reveals a different side of war, a new range of feelings, smells
and colours. After completing the manuscript in 1983, Alexievich
was not allowed to publish it because it went against the
state-sanctioned history of the war. With the dawn of Perestroika,
a heavily censored edition came out in 1985 and it became a huge
bestseller in the Soviet Union - the first in five books that have
established her as the conscience of the twentieth century.
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