Books like The Unwomanly Face of War
An oral history of the Soviet women who fought in the Second World War, as snipers, pilots, tank drivers, medics and laundresses, in their own voices.
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Last Witnesses
The memories of people who were children in Belarus and across the Soviet Union during the Second World War.
Zinky Boys
Testimony from Soviet soldiers who fought in Afghanistan, and from the mothers who received their sons home in zinc coffins.
First They Killed My Father
Loung Ung's memoir of the Khmer Rouge years, from her family's flight from Phnom Penh when she was five to her training as a child soldier and her escape.
And Where Were You, Adam?
Linked episodes of the German retreat from Romania and Hungary in 1944, following a soldier, Feinhals, among men who no longer believe in anything.
Underground
Murakami's interviews with survivors of the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and with members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult behind it, set beside his own essay on what the attack revealed about Japan.
Grass
A biography-in-comics of Lee Ok-sun, a Korean woman trafficked as a teenager to a Japanese military comfort station in 1942 and the life she rebuilt after.
Peeling the Onion
Grass's memoir of his boyhood in Danzig, his war, including his service as a teenager in the Waffen-SS, and his years of becoming a writer.
Group Portrait with Lady
A researcher pieces together, from interviews with everyone who knew her, the life of Leni Pfeiffer, a Cologne woman who fell in love with a Soviet prisoner of war during the Second World War.
The Gulag Archipelago
Solzhenitsyn's history of the Soviet prison camp system from 1918 to 1956, built from his own years inside and the testimony of hundreds of former prisoners.
The Fate of a Man
At a river crossing in the first spring after the war, a soldier tells a stranger how he lost everything, his family, his home and years in German camps, and the small boy now beside him.
The Gathering Storm
The first volume of Churchill's history of the Second World War: the twenty years from the Treaty of Versailles to May 1940, when he became Prime Minister.
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
Seven linked stories of revolutionaries swallowed by the Soviet purges and by the revolution they served, told as if from the archives.