Zinky Boys

Title: Zinky Boys
Author: Svetlana Alexievich
Military History: 1689080
ISBN: 9781324051121
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2023
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Section: History | Europe | General
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description:

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, while the dead were shipped back in zinc-lined coffins. In this new translation, Zinky Boys weaves together the candid and affecting testimony of the officers and grunts, doctors and nurses, mothers, sons, and daughters who describe the war and its lasting effects. A "masterpiece of reportage" (Timothy Snyder, New York Review of Books) emerges of harrowing and unforgettable insight into war.