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Last Witnesses
by Svetlana Alexievich
Adults recall World War II as they saw it as children: a hundred short testimonies of hunger, loss, kindness. Devastating in miniature.
Read it if…
you want war through children's eyes.
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Skip it if…
you are not ready; it is very hard.
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Three things you will actually use
- Children remember everything.
- Small kindnesses saved lives.
- Listen to the last witnesses.
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Read ten testimonies.
Our verdict
Alexievich's children.
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