Svetlana Alexievich · 2018
An oral history of teenage Soviet girls who served as machine gunners, fighter pilots, and paratroopers during World War II.
Julia Ioffe recommends it because it features teenage Soviet girls joining the fight in World War II in roles like machine gunners and fighter pilots, calling it an extraordinary book.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“But specifically, I would recommend her book, The Unwomanly Face of War, which is about these teenage Soviet girls joining the fight in World War II as machine gunners, as fighter pilots, as paratroopers.”
Why: It's an absolutely extraordinary book.
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