The unwomanly face of war: an oral history of women in World War II
Writing about war is always hard. Read about it, too. Especially if the reader has personally experienced the horrors of war. It took me a week to come to my senses after reading this book. The memories came back. Almost every family lost a loved one in the defense and liberation war for the independence and integrity of the Republic of Croatia. And after twenty five years, the memories are still alive.
This book features women who took part in World War II. They talk about their experiences and the roles they played in the war and after it. Many people know about World War II from western movies. Nowhere in school textbooks does it say that women also suffered a great deal in the war. In this work, the women stripped naked. They talk about birth, dying, friendship, love, hope, faith, happiness, fears… But they seem to have been left aside after the end of the war. Shadow winners.
"I didn't want to kill, I wasn't born to kill. I wanted to become a teacher. But I watched them burn down my village. "
"I came back from the war gray. I was twenty-one years old, and I was completely white. ”
"Ah, my darling… It is impossible to have one heart for hatred and another for love."
"There is only one way - to love a man. Understand him through love. ”Svetlana Aleksievich was born on May 31, 1948. She is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and historian. In his documentary books, he talks about the great historical traumas of the people of the former USSR, giving voice to the witnesses of the time. She has won numerous awards, the most important of which are: the Leipzig Prize for European Understanding, the Herder Prize, the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize, the National Award of American Critics and the Peace Prize of the Association of German Critics. She is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2015.
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