Status Updates From The Unwomanly Face of War: ...

Gotten through to the introduction and to the first chapter, where Alexiveich speaks of her village, where the war stories will told by women and their songs sounded like weeping. So far, it’s both heartbreaking but saddening, hearing these stories from women who were just children, seventeen or eighteen, when they entered the war.

“Don’t be afraid of my tears. Don’t pity me. Let it be painful for me, but I’m grateful to you that I’ve recalled myself when I was young…” - :‘(