أولاد زينيكي: أصوات سوفيتية من حرب أفغانستان

Who won the Nobel Prize for his work, which is “a monument to the suffering and courage of our time” (Swedish Academy). Before the US invasion, one million Soviet soldiers fought a devastating war in Afghanistan that left 50,000 dead, as well as tens of thousands of young people and humanitarians. The Soviet Union spoke of a “peacekeeping” mission, while bodies were shipped in zinc-lined coffins. In this new translation, Zinky Boys brings together honest and moving testimonies from officers, soldiers, doctors, nurses, mothers, sons, and daughters who describe the war and its lasting effects. “A masterpiece of investigative journalism” (Timothy Snyder, New York Review of Books) emerges through a haunting and unforgettable vision of war.