La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer / The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II (Paperback)

from ShannonRose4

The vignettes painstakingly documented on these pages reveal the hidden side of the prism of war. At times memory, at times confessions, these true accounts finally permit us a view of the past that textbooks overlooked to tell the tales of the battles within the war. Each story will leave you br...

from Ken-Me-Old-Mate

One of the most striking things I learned from this book is that it was the Russians who defeated the Nazis. The won with their bodies and their hearts and minds. The Allies just mopped up the remnants of Hitler's fighting forces. It did not happen as it is portrayed in the West. The Russians pai...

from ShannonRose4

The vignettes painstakingly documented on these pages reveal the hidden side of the prism of war. At times memory, at times confessions, these true accounts finally permit us a view of the past that textbooks overlooked to tell the tales of the battles within the war. Each story will leave you br...

from ShannonRose4

The vignettes painstakingly documented on these pages reveal the hidden side of the prism of war. At times memory, at times confessions, these true accounts finally permit us a view of the past that textbooks overlooked to tell the tales of the battles within the war. Each story will leave you br...

from EnidaV

This was a shocking, sobering, at times heart-breaking and really illuminating read. I had no idea that the Soviets used women on the frontlines to such an extent: they were sappers, snipers, pilots, artillary officers, they worked on tanks and in machine gun crews, they dragged the wounded off t...