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War is always war, with all its horrors, and who better than Ukrainians to know about it. And women are always women created for happiness, not suffering. But life makes its own adjustments...

One of the best and most eloquent books by the world-famous journalist Samar Yazbek is dedicated to two of the most painful topics for her: Syria and women. Through her work, the author has opened up an unprecedented vision of the Syrian conflict to humanity, reminding the world that those who experienced the civil war were ordinary people who simply wanted to live in dignity in their own country. Yazbeck focuses on the silent and silenced driving force behind the revolution - women. Although Syrian women participated in the fighting in large numbers, often on the front lines, they had to fight not only the regime, or ISIS, or other Islamist insurgents; they were opposed by the entire patriarchal society, including the male revolutionaries. Each chapter of the book is a candid testimony of nineteen different narrators, which Yazbek makes coherent by respecting each woman's voice and preserving their distinctive style. All of these women are middle-class, all of them educated and have university degrees. They took part in the uprising because they cared about the fate of their country, their families and Syrian women.

The reader will find many similarities between Syrian and Ukrainian realities. And may this book help the world become at least a little better.