精彩萬分，引人入勝，欲知戰爭之高貴與殘酷者，《庫德族女兵》必讀。此書允為現代戰爭最扣人心弦的故事。——威廉．麥克雷文（Adm. William H. McRaven），Make Your Bed、Little Things That Can Change Your Lif、Maybe the World作者
When we spoke, they made clear that their ambition went well beyond this sliver of Syria: they wanted to serve as a model for the region’s future, with women’s liberation a crucial element of their quest for a locally led, communal, and democratic society where people from different backgrounds lived together. This story was not only a military campaign, I realized, but also a political one: without the military victories, the political experiment could not take hold. For the young women fighting, what mattered most was long-term political and social change. That was why they’d signed up for this war and why they were willing to die for it. They believed beating ISIS counted as simply the first step toward defeating a mentality that said women existed only as property and as objects with w... (查看原文)
The Kurds made up Syria’s largest ethnic minority at roughly 10 percent of a country of around twenty-one million. The Kurds were a people split across four countries, the largest ethnic group with no state of its own. This hadn’t been the plan: The 1920 Treaty of Sèvres had promised the creation of a Kurdish state, but Turkey’s first president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, rejected the treaty immediately upon taking office in 1923. The Treaty of Sèvres soon gave way to the Treaty of Lausanne, negotiated with Atatürk’s new government, which did not reference a Kurdish homeland at all. Lacking their own state, thirty million Kurds found themselves spread across what became, in the post-Ottoman era, modern-day Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran. Turkey was home to the largest Kurdish population.
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0 有用 晓木曰兮历史系 2024-04-24 00:23:54 福建
內容有些老，但是作者寫作的時間和觀點是三年前的，作為追憶，不需要苛求新鮮感。這群女兵的故事，非常的震撼，但是，如果對中東近代史不了解的話，會有點兒難懂。
0 有用 晓木曰兮历史系 2024-04-24 00:23:54 福建
內容有些老，但是作者寫作的時間和觀點是三年前的，作為追憶，不需要苛求新鮮感。這群女兵的故事，非常的震撼，但是，如果對中東近代史不了解的話，會有點兒難懂。