Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexiévich

Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

Voices of Utopia #3

Svetlana Alexiévich

304 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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Before the United States' invasion, a million Soviet troops fought a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties--and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. The Soviet Union talked about a "peacekeeping" mission, ...

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