Download or read book Zinky Boys written by Svetlana Aleksievich and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties - and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. In Zinky Boys journalist Svetlana Alexievich gives voice to the tragic history of the Afghanistan War. What emerges is a story that is shocking in its brutality and revelatory in its similarities to the American experience in Vietnam - a resemblance that Larry Heinemann describes movingly in his.