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Testimony from Soviet soldiers who fought in Afghanistan, and from the mothers who received their sons home in zinc coffins.
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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.
Last Witnesses
The memories of people who were children in Belarus and across the Soviet Union during the Second World War.
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.
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.
The Kite Runner
Amir, a wealthy boy in 1970s Kabul, betrays his loyal friend Hassan, the son of his father's servant, and decades later, living in California, he returns to a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to try to atone.
This House of Grief
Garner follows the trials of Robert Farquharson, who drove his car into a dam on Father's Day 2005 and drowned his three sons, and asks whether he meant to.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Mariam, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy man, and Laila, a teacher's daughter from Kabul, are married a generation apart to the same brutal man, and as Afghanistan falls apart around them, they become each other's only ally.
News of a Kidnapping
García Márquez's account of the kidnapping of ten Colombian journalists and public figures by Pablo Escobar's Medellín cartel in 1990, taken as leverage against extradition to the United States.
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.
Regarding the Pain of Others
Sontag returns to her On Photography territory a quarter-century later to ask what we do with images of atrocity, and whether there is a form of looking that is not a kind of spectator-sport.
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.
Going After Cacciato
A soldier named Cacciato walks away from the war in Vietnam, saying he is going to Paris, and his squad is sent after him across eight thousand miles.