In this series I’m going to give you audio reading of the 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, Svetlana Alexievich.
“But why? I asked myself more than once. Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? Their words and feelings? They did not believe themselves. A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that war. A women’s history.”
— Svetlana Alexievich
WAR’S UNWOMANLY FACE - Of living and everyday life