Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich University of Toronto Press a skeletal tractor sits on

a skeletal tractor sits on a cast-iron platform

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he sets off on what turns out to be a very bizarre journey

Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich University of Toronto Press a skeletal tractor sits onExtraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich. What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the