Avenging angels : soviet women snipers on the eastern front (1941-45) /
Vinogradova, Lyuba
Avenging angels : soviet women snipers on the eastern front (1941-45) / Lyuba Vinogradova ,Anna Reid ; translated from the Russian by Arch Tait - 299 pages : portraits ; 20 cm.
Includes index
Beginning in 1942, with the Eastern Front having claimed the lives of several million Soviet soldiers, Stalin's Red Army began drafting tens of thousands of women, most of them in their teens or early twenties, to defend against the Nazi invasion. Some volunteered, but most were given no choice, in particular about whether to become a sniper or to fill some other combat role.
9780857051998
History of Europe
Military history of world war ii
940.54 VIN
Avenging angels : soviet women snipers on the eastern front (1941-45) / Lyuba Vinogradova ,Anna Reid ; translated from the Russian by Arch Tait - 299 pages : portraits ; 20 cm.
Includes index
Beginning in 1942, with the Eastern Front having claimed the lives of several million Soviet soldiers, Stalin's Red Army began drafting tens of thousands of women, most of them in their teens or early twenties, to defend against the Nazi invasion. Some volunteered, but most were given no choice, in particular about whether to become a sniper or to fill some other combat role.
9780857051998
History of Europe
Military history of world war ii
940.54 VIN