Alexievich Svetlana

"Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown... I want to write the history of that war. A women's

'A major work by one of our greatest living historians. . . an immense achievement' - Jane Graham, Big Issue 'Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth' - Caroline Moorehead, Guardian Ext

*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women’s experiences in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature “Why, having stood up for and held their own pl