The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
- Author
- Svetlana Alexievich
- Translator
- Richard Pevear
Larissa Volokhonsky - Content
- xliii + 331 pp., bibl.
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- New York: Random House/Penguin Random House
- Original-Language Title
- U voĭny ne zhenskoe lit︠s︡o
- Translation
- Translated from Russian
- Publication notes
- Originally published, Moscow: Pravda, 1985. First published in English as War's Unwomanly Face (Moscow: Progress, 1988).
- Description
- Based on interviews with Soviet women in more than 100 towns across Europe and the former Soviet Union. Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for her work.
- Main subject
- Autobiography and Biography
Politics - ISBN
- 9780399588723 (cloth); 9780399588747 (pap.); 9780399588730 (ebook)
- Citation
- Alexievich, Svetlana. The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York: Random House/Penguin Random House, 2017. Sylvia. Accessed June 16, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL80.
- Updated
- 10-07-2024
Publication Information
Publisher's WebsiteReviews
New York Times Book Review, Aug. 20, 2017, 11Publishers Weekly, Mar. 6, 2017, 49
Women's Review of Books, Nov.–Dec. 2017, 11–13