The Unwomanly Face of War

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Title: War Has No Feminine Face

Author: Svetlana Alexandrona

Translator: Abdul Rahim Ahmadi

Publisher: Cheshmeh

Subject: Russian story

Age category: Adult

Cover: Paperback

Number of pages: 364 p

Language Farsi

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The book “The Unwomanly Face of War” is the documentary narrative of these women who spent their best years in the war and their destiny is forever overshadowed by the war. In this book, Svetlana Aleksievich depicts the voices of these women soldiers and narrates the war through their eyes. Anyone who is interested in the human soul should read the book War has no female face.

War stories have no end. Wars always take their victims for years after the end. World War II is one of the greatest human catastrophes in which the number of people affected is out of number. Many Russian girls and women fought in the war for the Soviet army, girls who were never considered war heroes.

Learn more about the book “War has no female face”
War has no female face is a documentary book. It might even be called a confession. War has no female face is the story of Russian girls and women who, during World War II, forgot their girlish dreams and became soldiers. The presence of women in war has usually been in roles such as nursing and medicine. Few women in history have been on the front lines.

War does not have a female face, it is the story of these women and girls. Young girls who, along with men, took up arms, shot, blew up bridges, and were captured and killed in battles against German forces, numbering more than 500,000.

Svetlana Aleksievich, author of Four Years, collected information to write the book. During these four years, he visited more than a hundred towns and villages and spoke to many people. Women, many of whom refused to express their suffering. The result of Ms. Aleksievich’s efforts is a masterpiece in the suffering of Russian women soldiers of World War II. “This book is a living account of the distant past that affected the fate of the entire Russian nation,” the Soviet press said of Ms. Aleksievich.

Ms. Aleksievich started the book with the narration of her own adventure, and in the following chapters of the book, she quotes the narratives of different people from their own language. If we look at the letters written below these memories and the responsibilities they had in the war, we will be amazed; Sniper, commander of anti-aircraft weapons, minesweeper, machine gun. These women have experienced this way of life. An experience that even thinking about is terrifying.

War has no female face was first published in 1988. The book’s introduction states that war has no female face. The first of five books by Svetlana Aleksievich is entitled “Voices of the Utopia.”

World War II, the bitterest tragedy in history
World War II is a dark six-year period from the twentieth century that affected the lives of many people. In this full-scale war, most countries of the world were involved and more than 100 million people from 30 different countries of the world were directly affected by it. The superpowers of that time used all their human, scientific and natural resources to win this war. World War II statistics nail man. A population of between 50 and 85 million people around the world have been killed in recent years.

The sparks of World War II were ignited by Japan’s invasion of China in 1937, but the official date of the outbreak of World War II is considered to be the beginning of Nazi Germany’s invasion of western Poland on September 1, 1939. Following this, France and Britain declared war on Germany. In the beginning, the Germans made great strides in the war, they were able to take control of many parts of Europe. Germany was then able to occupy France and besiege Britain.

Germany and the Soviet Union then signed a non-aggression pact, but Germany did not abide by it. They planned the largest operation in World War II against Russia. Operation Barbarossa began in July 1941. But things did not go according to plan for the Germans. The vast Soviet terrain and insane coldness of the country was unbelievable to German forces, and they stumbled in the Soviet Union.

After this incident, the sheet turned to the Allies in the war and the German front was severely weakened. Germany then lost to the Soviets in several battles, such as Stalingrad and Kursk, and lost many of its allies. Eventually Berlin fell to the Red Army and Germany surrendered. Italy had already surrendered. The only country that resisted was Japan, which was the result of two nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The war ended with the complete victory of the “Allies”.

Svetlana Aleksievich; Narrator of oral history
Svetlana Aleksievich is a Belarusian writer and journalist born in May 1948. He was born in the town of Stanislav, now called Ivano-Frankivsk, in the Soviet Union. His father was Belarusian and his mother Ukrainian. He has been a journalist for local newspapers since his high school years. Ms. Aleksiewicz graduated from Belarus State University.

Svetlana Aleksievich has many literary works, many of which have been translated and published in Iran. Ms. Aleksiewicz’s works include The Chernobyl Whispers: Oral History, The Soviet Voices of the Afghanistan War, The Boys of Zinc, Second Hand Time, and The Last Witness.

Svetlana Aleksievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for “Polyphonic Narratives, a Manifestation of Trouble and Courage in Our Time.” He is the only Belarusian history writer to win the award. In addition to the Nobel Prize in Literature, he has other awards in his repertoire. Aleksievich received the Civilian Medal of Honor in 1984 before the collapse of the Soviet Union. He also won the 2013 German Booksellers’ Peace Prize and the Medici Prize (Literary Prize in France).

The Unwomanly Face of War; Published in Iran
World War II has been the subject of many books around the world, many of which have been translated into Persian. If you visit the bookshelf of World War II history in our country’s bookstores, you will find many books written on this subject. Among these books are “The Unknown War: A German Narrative of World War II”, “A Civilization, a Belief, a Leader”, “History and Review of Important Events of World War II” and …. The place of the book of war has no female face until it was empty among these books only a few years ago.

Although more than twenty years have passed since the first publication of Ms. Aleksievich’s book until 2016, no one had translated it into Persian. In 1995, Abdolmajid Ahmadi, an Iranian translator, translated the book from Russian into Persian and published Cheshmeh. The book War Has No Feminine Face was met with unprecedented acclaim and reached its third edition in less than three months.

Buy and download the electronic version of the book “War has no female face”. Translation by Abdolmajid Ahmadi is possible on this page.

In a part of the book, we read that war does not have a female face
About men’s boots and women’s hats: “We lived on the ground … like a blind mouse … In the spring you would bring a branch and put it on the ledge. You watched and you were happy. Oh, you might not be tomorrow. That’s why you think to yourself and try to remember the branch … Sending woolen women’s clothes from home to one of the girls. We became jealous. Even though we knew it was not possible to wear personal clothes during the war. Our elder, who was a man, grumbled and said, “It would have been better if they had sent you bedding. “It was more useful.” We had no sheets, no pillows. We slept on the branches, on the straw. But I had a pair of earrings that I always hid from the others, I put the earrings on my ears before going to sleep and slept with them …

When I was first injured, I could neither hear nor speak. I told myself that if I could not speak anymore, I would throw myself under the train. I, who read so beautifully, once lost Saddam. Fortunately, Saddam is back. I was feeling happy, when I listened to my earrings, I went to the guard post, shouting with joy: “Mr. Captain, the guard is reporting something …”

“Let me see what this is?”

“What do you mean?”

“Get out of here!”

“What happened?”

“Take off your earphones immediately! What’s the matter?” “Tosarbazi?”

Mr. Captain was very handsome. All the girls loved her in some way. He all told us that in war only soldiers are needed! Only and only soldiers! … But we wanted to look beautiful too … I was afraid that my legs would be paralyzed during the whole war. My legs are very nice and beautiful. What about men? It does not matter much if they lose their legs. In any case, they all consider them heroes. A husband that everyone dreams of! But if a woman becomes disabled, her destiny is ruined. His female destiny … »

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