On ‘War’s Unwomanly Face’, may I recommend the translation ‘The Unwomanly Face of War’? It’s a much more recent translation and reportedly — I haven’t read the

On ‘War’s Unwomanly Face’, may I recommend the translation ‘The Unwomanly Face of War’? It’s a much more recent translation and reportedly — I haven’t read the version you refer to — the older one was heavily edited or censored to focus on war as victory, as positive, rather than the real history and personal impact she wrote about. This Guardian review mentions the original vs the newer translation briefly towards the end: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/02/unwomanly-face-of-war-svetlana-alexievich-review https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/02/unwomanly-face... Also — and I know this is a weird thing to say about such a horrific topic — I find the translation of the newer title, ‘The Unwomanly Face of War’, much more poetic or fluid phrasing than ‘War’s Unwomanly Face’. It’s English language as beauty rather than the slight awkwardness present in the 1980s translation’s title. It reminds me of ‘A Remembrance of Things Past’, which has a certain je ne sais quoi compared to the newer translated title ‘In Search of Lost Time’ (not that that’s a bad title, it just sounds a bit like the title of a 1930s boy’s adventure novel compared to the nostalgic beauty of Remembrance.)