A review by ellephuonglinhnguyen
Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II by Svetlana Alexiévich, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear

5.0

Dostoevsky once posed a question: can we justify our world, our happiness, and even eternal harmony, if in its name, to strengthen its foundation, at least one little tear of an innocent child will be spilled? And he himself answered: this tear will not justify any progress, any revolution. Any war. It will always outweigh them.
Just one little tear...