The Unwomanly Face of WarThe unforgettable 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 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 history.\" In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book,