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War's unwomanly face / S. Alexiyevich.

By:

Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948- [author]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: engrus Publication details: Moscow, Russia : Progress Publishers, c1988.Description: 247 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

5010004941

Uniform titles:

U voĭny--ne zhenskoe lit︠s︡o-- . English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

940.53/15/042 19

LOC classification:

D 810 .W7 A5313 1988

Contents:

"I am loath to recall" -- "You must grow up a little, girls ... you are too young" -- "I, alone, returned to my mother" -- "Two wars are still on in our house" -- "A telephone receiver does not shoot ..." -- "We were decorated with minor medals" -- "That wasn't me ..." -- "I remember those eyes even now" -- "We didn't shoot" -- "A soldier was needed ... but I wanted to be pretty as well" -- "Just to look once ..." -- "... About a bowl of tiny potatoes? -- "Mum, what is Dad?" -- "I can't see children playing at 'war' "

Summary: "This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in it, describing how young girls, who dreamed of becoming brides, became soldiers in 1941. More than 500,000 Soviet women participated on a par with men in the Second World War, the most terrible war of the 20th century. Women not only rescued and bandaged the wounded but also fires a sniper's rifle, blew up bridges, went reconnoitering and killed... They killed the enemy who, with unprecedented cruelty, had attacked their land, their homes and their children. Soviet writer of Bychorussia, Svetlana Alexiyevich spent four years working on the book, visiting over 100 cities and towns, settlements and villages and recording the stories and reminiscences of women war veterans. The soviet press called the book"a vivid reporting of events long past, which affected the destiny of the nation as a whole." The most important thing about the book is not so much the front-line episodes as women's heart-rending experiences in the war. Through their testimony the past makes an impassioned appeal to the present, denouncing yesterday's and today's fascism..." -- from the back cover

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKS	Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks	D 810 .W7 A5313 1988 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		NPML20120010

Translation of: U voĭny--ne zhenskoe lit︠s︡o-- .

"This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in it, describing how young girls, who dreamed of becoming brides, became soldiers in 1941. More than 500,000 Soviet women participated on a par with men in the Second World War, the most terrible war of the 20th century. Women not only rescued and bandaged the wounded but also fires a sniper's rifle, blew up bridges, went reconnoitering and killed... They killed the enemy who, with unprecedented cruelty, had attacked their land, their homes and their children. Soviet writer of Bychorussia, Svetlana Alexiyevich spent four years working on the book, visiting over 100 cities and towns, settlements and villages and recording the stories and reminiscences of women war veterans. The soviet press called the book"a vivid reporting of events long past, which affected the destiny of the nation as a whole." The most important thing about the book is not so much the front-line episodes as women's heart-rending experiences in the war. Through their testimony the past makes an impassioned appeal to the present, denouncing yesterday's and today's fascism..." -- from the back cover

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