War does not have a feminine face - Svetlana Alexievich
Thousands of wars, short and long, we knew some details of them and other details were absent among the bodies of the victims. Many wrote, but always men wrote about men. All we knew about war, we knew through "the voice of the man". So we are all prisoners of men's perceptions and their feelings about war, prisoners of men's words. As for women, they have always fallen silent. In World War II, nearly a million Soviet women participated in fighting on all fronts and in various tasks. Svetlana raises important questions about the role of women in war, why did women who defended their land and took their place in the exclusive world of men not defend their history? Where are their words and where are their feelings? There is a whole hidden world. Their war remained unknown. The author Svetlana Alexievich, Dar Mamdouh Adwan, 320 pages
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