The Ship of Widows (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810111448)

"My husband was killed at the front right at the beginning of the war." Thus opens The Ship of Widows, the story of five women brought together in a large communal apartment by the vagaries of war in the year 1943. It spotlights the female experience of World War II: the fate of those not at the front, but still forced to fight as desperately to survive starvation, cold, and exhaustion, and to maintain homes and a country to which the soldiers can return. The Ship of Widows reveals an seldom-seen period of Russia's history and an understudied segment of its population--its women.

Author: I. Grekova
ISBN-10: 0810111446
ISBN-13: 9780810111448
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/08/1994
Pages: 179
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.14w x 0.65d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/01/1994 pg. 1582
Publishers Weekly 04/04/1994 pg. 71