This is a translation of the original book which was published in 1985, where the author travels through Russia to speak with the women who fought for the Soviets during WWII. So many of them were just girls when they left their homes and families to serve the motherland to victory. One of the first stories talks of a girl whose parents and siblings starve to death, and she is saved by eating horse pooh, and several types being able to tell that frozen is best. It is shocking in our modern comfortable lives and hard to imagine how hard it must have been for these women to survive, the things they must have seen. Now 35 years later these stories become even more important as these witnesses die and it is only their stories that remain. 4/5
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Unfortunately, much of the world is worse off than we are, and in times of disaster or war, things only get worse…
...Though it's more like 75 years later, than 35. Going on to a century...
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