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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
By Alexievich, Svetlana
- ISBN
- 9780399588754 9780399588778
- Publisher
- Random
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Reviewed on July 1, 2019 | Social Sciences
Originally published in Russian in 1985, this newly translated work by Nobel laureate in literature Alexievich (Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets) highlights the wartime experiences of children in the Soviet Union during World War II. Alexievich has noted that the preferred label for her genre is "documentary literature," while a more mundane category might be "oral history." Within are stories ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
