📗 Libro en inglés THE UNWOMANLY FACE OF WAR

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 th