Reviews tagging 'War'

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexiévich

27 reviews

seph5040's review

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Death, Torture, Murder, and War

lizziaha's review against another edition

5.0

This book is just a deluge of pain and grief and raw humanity. And because of that humanity, hope and love manage to shine through, against all odds. This definitely reframed the Russian front for me, and gave me a whole new perspective on Russian women and their part in the war. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Violence, Animal death, War, Antisemitism, Blood, Gun violence, Hate crime, Child death, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Rape, Suicide attempt, Deportation, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, and Death of parent

sparky_lurkdragon's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Animal death, Child death, and Gore

thebowandthebook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Vivid, stark and gruesome, this book spared little detail but provided a remarkable look into the sides of WW2 not often seen. Truly illuminated the difference between the woman's views on war and the men's. Excellent read, so many stories... so many lives.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Rape, Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Child death, Animal death, Antisemitism, Gore, Torture, Sexual assault, War, Misogyny, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Infidelity, Excrement, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Abortion, and Medical content

wiktoria_bojda's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, War, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism and Rape

hyppolitas's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective

Incredible, seminal, the starting point of a lot female-centric choral war memoirs. It was a huge inspiration to Campiello-winner Benedetta Tobagi, who wrote La resistenza delle donne about Italian female partisans and resistance members during WWII. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, War, Rape, and Child death

rcsreads's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Torture, Blood, Death, Grief, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Rape

cword's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Torture, War, Misogyny, Body horror, Genocide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Child abuse, Death, and Domestic abuse

dnl83ldn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, War, Murder, Child death, Animal death, and Death

paizliibubs's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Rape