In her Nobel Prize-winning work, Svetlana Alexievich presents a groundbreaking oral history of the Soviet women who fought in World War II. For years, their stories were silenced or sanitized. Alexievich spent years interviewing hundreds of women—snipers, pilots, nurses, and anti-aircraft gunners—to reveal the raw, personal, and often brutal reality of their experiences. This book moves beyond grand narratives of victory to capture the intimate, human cost of conflict, giving a powerful and unforgettable voice to the forgotten female soldiers who saw the unwomanly face of war.