The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
by Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
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Random House, 2017. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover with like DJ. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 384 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From the publisher, "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 the official histories.
Translated by the renowned Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Unwomanly Face of War is a powerful and poignant account of the central conflict of the twentieth century, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of war.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From the publisher, "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 the official histories.
Translated by the renowned Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Unwomanly Face of War is a powerful and poignant account of the central conflict of the twentieth century, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of war.
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- Title
- The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
- Author
- Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
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- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0399588728
- ISBN 13
- 9780399588723
- Publisher
- Random House
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- Nobel Prize, WWII, Women's history, War, Soviets,
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