Zinc Boys, Paperback Book

Svetlana Alexievich in her book Zinc Boys documented the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan between 1979 and 1985. In it, she collected interviews with soldiers returning from the war, or with the mothers and wives of soldiers killed there, and their bodies were returned in zinc coffins. The result of the war was thousands of dead, disabled and missing, This prompted Svetlana to raise sensitive questions about the war, who are we? Why did we do that? And why did this happen to us? Why did we believe all that? Svetlana was put on trial for publishing this book, and part of the documents related to the trial were added in Arabic translation.