Last Witnesses : An Oral History of the Children of World War II

Translation copyright © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

RANDOM HOUSE and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Originally published in Russian as Последние свидетели: сто недетских колыбельных by Molodaya Gvardiya, Moscow, in 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Svetlana Alexievich

This English translation is published in the United Kingdom by Penguin, London.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Aleksievich, Svetlana, author. | Pevear, Richard, translator. | Volokhonsky, Larissa, translator.

Title: Last witnesses: an oral history of the children of World War II / Svetlana Alexievich; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

Other titles: Poslednie svideteli. English

Description: First edition. | New York: Random House, [2019]

Identifiers: LCCN 2018034984 | ISBN 9780399588754 | ISBN 9780399588778 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: World War, 1939–1945—Children—Soviet Union. | World War, 1939–1945—Personal narratives, Soviet.

Classification: LCC D810.C4 A44313 2019 | DDC 940.53/4709253—dc23

LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/​2018034984

Ebook ISBN 9780399588778

randomhousebooks.com

Book design by Barbara M. Bachman, adapted for ebook

Cover design: Anna Bauer Carr

Cover photograph: akg-images/picture alliance/ZB

v5.4

ep