Unwomanly Face of War av Svetlana Alexievich

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<b>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</b><br><br><b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY</b><br><b><i>The Washington Post</i> • <i>The Guardian</i> • NPR • <i>The Economist</i> • <i>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</i> • <i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br><br>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.”<br><br> In <i>The Unwomanly Face of War, </i>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