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The Unwomanly Face of War

By سفيتلانا أليكسييفيتش

Published by MAMDOUH ADWAN PUBLISHING HOUSE · 2016

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For decades, histories of the Second World War treated combat as an exclusively male experience. Svetlana Alexievich interviews Soviet women who served as snipers, pilots, medics, engineers and soldiers, asking them to describe the war in their own language. Their memories of courage, humiliation, tenderness and return challenge heroic myth and reveal how gender shaped both the front line and the silence afterwards. The result is a landmark oral history of war’s intimate reality. Originally written in Russian as “У войны не женское лицо”, the work appears here in an Arabic translation by ʿUyūn al-Sūd, Nizār.

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