The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II - Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Swietłana Aleksijewicz • BookLikes (ISBN:0399588728)

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

by: Richard Pevear (author) Larissa Volokhonsky (author) Swietłana Aleksijewicz (author)

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Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 9780399588723 (0399588728)

ASIN: 0399588728

Publish date: 2017-07-25

Publisher: Random House

Pages no: 384

Edition language: English

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Tannat rated it

6 years ago

http://tannat.booklikes.com Tannat 2.0 DNF @ 16%

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This just wasn't what I was expecting. It's just a bunch of snippets of women telling their war stories without any kind of overarching narrative or background. Not a bad book in itself, but I'm not interested in reading 300 pages of this.

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nataliya rated it

13 years ago

http://nataliya.booklikes.com nataliya 5.0

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We usually think of wars as something that men do. Boys play with toy soldiers and toy guns, and play with real things when they get older, right? But women have been fighting in wars throughout history. We just don't know their stories. We know the stories of men. The women remain in the background...

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