Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Bromfield, Andrew

Description

1. v, 294 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. "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." --

Alternative title

1. Soviet voices from the Aghanistan war

Subject

1. 1979-1989
2. Soldiers > Soviet Union > Biography
3. Soldiers > Soviet Union > Personal narratives
4. Soldiers
5. Afghanistan > History > Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 > Personal narratives
6. Afghanistan
7. Soviet Union

Genre/Form

1. Biographies.
2. Personal narratives.
3. History.

Contents

1. Prologue -- From the notebooks -- Day one, for many shally com in my name... -- Day two, and another dieth in the bitterness of his soul -- Day three, regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards -- Post Mortem -- Zinky boys on trial.

Call number

1. JFD 23-908

Note

1. Originally published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1992.
2. This translation first published by Penguin Books in 2017.

Language (note)

1. Translated from the Russian.

Author

1. Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948- author.

Title

1. Zinky boys : Soviet voices from the Afghanistan war / Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Andrew Bromfield.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.

Copyright date

1. ©1992

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Language

1. Translated from the Russian.

Chronological term

1. 1979-1989

Added author

1. Bromfield, Andrew, translator.

ISBN

1. 9781324051121 (paperback)
2. 1324051124 (paperback)

Research call number

1. JFD 23-908