The Unwomanly Face of War

A manga adaptation of Svetlana Alexievich’s book which won the Noble Prize in Literature.

We’ve discussed this on a recent episode.

I love these adaptations of historical events. Keito Koume does a fantastic job of bringing Alexievich’s oral history of Russian female soldiers during World War 2 to life. Since Alexievich interviews many veterans of war we get to see women who tended to the laundry, female snipers, and even female fighter pilots. But Seamus did warn me that Svetlana Alexievich tends to alter facts to fit the narrative she wants to tell so I won’t take her stories as absolute truths. Regardless, this series is great.

~dakazu