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from brenzi

If you ever get in the doldrums and sit around feeling sorry for yourself about one First World problem or another, read this book to give you a better perspective of what it means to lose so so much. Heartbreaking doesn't begin to cover it. I listened to the audio and it was just excellent as th...

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Originally released in Russia in the eighties, the translated copy is soon to be released here for what I believe is the first time. If you've read others by this author you know she gathers up first hand accounts of various events and catastrophies, then arranged them with little or no change. T...

from atticusfinch1048

Last Witnesses, Unchildlike Stories – Haunting Witnesses of the Past Svetlana Alexievich's fantastic oral history of those witness to the invasion of what was the old Soviet Union. When in June 1941 the Germans entered the new Soviet Union via Eastern Poland, Ukraine, Belarus as they headed north...

from Ken-Me-Old-Mate

Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich. I read the English language version. Having read all of her other books I was naturally drawn to this. Her forté is to collate first hand verbatim accounts. In this case it was recollections of Russian people who were children when war began. There are no sa...

from larryerick

Can anyone really like this book? It was written in 1985, when most of the people telling their stories in it were probably in their 40s or 50s, for this is a collection of "reports" by former children of the Soviet Union, when Nazi Germany attacked, with the children asked being about 2 years ol...