Svetlana Alexievitch, La guerre n’a pas un visage de femme [Svetlana Aleksievich, U voiny ne zhenskoe litso, Moskva : Pal’mira 2004] [The face of war is not feminin], Paris : Presses de la Renaissance, 2004, 399 pages.

In this book Svetlana Alexievitch gives another view point about the Second World War in the USSR : she shows the different ways that women have waged this war. As she says, she aims to write not another book about war but “a book about mankind in war” (p.15), about his feelings... Her objective is to give women the opportunity to tell the reader their story, a story that is, for many, unknown and, as we learn, hidden. By letting these women express themselves openly, she simply listened and ..