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Avenging angels : soviet women snipers on the eastern front (1941-45) / Lyuba Vinogradova ,Anna Reid ; translated from the Russian by Arch Tait

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextDescription: 299 pages : portraits ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780857051998
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.54 VIN
Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: HMOSE JAN 2026
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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.

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