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Books by Svetlana Alexievich

Cover of Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets.

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

by Svetlana Alexievich · published 2016 · read 2020-02-22

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Cover of The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II.

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

by Svetlana Alexievich · published 2017 · read 2017-08-17

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Brutal, heartbreaking oral history of Soviet women who fought in WW2. Hard to fathom but painfully detailed. War is hell.