Reviews tagging 'Panic attacks/disorders'

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

2 reviews

littleredwinter's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

In the US, soldiers from WWII are lauded as heroes. We tend to view the western front of WWII as being the only front and forget about the men and especially women who fought for the Soviet Union on the eastern front. Further, WWII is seen by Americans even those who condemn other wars as uniquely moral and justified because we were fighting Nazis. What is not discussed is how even a war waged to end a genocide is bloody and brutal. Svetlana Alexievich does not censor the women she interviewed and they do not hold back. The horror of war rears its ugly head in plain view as these women describe in visceral detail exactly what they went through, how they felt about it then, and how they feel about it decades later now that they have been forced to live with it. This book is a thoughtful intersectional feminist view of war from the perspective of women who lived through that and relive it to this day. An especially important read with how few of them are left. I cannot recommend this enough. It will make you stop and carefully consider everything you learned in school and everything you believed about WWII. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Violence, Medical trauma, Vomit, War, Blood, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Rape

lectricefeministe's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Grief, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Death of parent, Gore, War, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Animal death, Chronic illness, Deportation, Blood, Gun violence, and Sexism