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**A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature****“A landmark.”—Timothy Snyder, author of __On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century__**For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her invention of “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul.” In __The Unwomanly Face of War,__ Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten. Alexievich traveled thousands of miles and visited more than a hundred towns to record these women’s stories. Together, this symphony of voices reveals a different aspect of the war—the everyday details of life in combat left out of th

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Author

Svetlana Alexievich

Publisher

Random House

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780399588723

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Military History, History

Rating

4.52 / 5 (122 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14