The unwomanly face of war
Svetlana Aleksievich (Author), Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories from Soviet women who lived through the Second World War: on the front lines, on the home front, and in occupied territories. As Alexievich gives voice to women who are absent from official narratives - captains, sergeants, nurses, snipers, pilots - she shows us a new version of the war we're so familiar with, creating an extraordinary alternative history from their private stories. Published in 1985 in Russia and now available in English for the first time, The Unwomanly Face of War was Alexievich's first book and a huge bestseller in the Soviet Union, establishing her as a brilliantly revolutionary writer
Personal narratives Russian
xli, 331 pages ; 22 cm.
9780141983523, 0141983523
986744609
Ebook version :
From a conversation with a historian
A human being is greater than war
"I don't want to remember..."
"Grow up, girls... you're still green..."
"I alone came back to Mama..."
"Two wars live in our house..."
"Telephones don't shoot..."
"They awarded us little medals..."
"It wasn't me..."
"I remember those eyes even now..."
"We didn't shoot..."
"They needed soldiers... but we also wanted to be beautiful..."
"Young ladies! Do you know: the Commander of a Sapper Platoon lives only two months..."
"To see him just once..."
"About tiny potatoes..."
"Mama, what's a papa?"
"And she puts her hand to her heart..."
"Suddenly we wanted desperately to live..."
"First published in English as War's unwomanly face by Progress Publishers, Moscow 1988"--Title page verso
Translated from the Russian