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

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Vinogradova, Lyuba [author]

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Material type: Text

TextDescription: 299 pages : portraits ; 20 cmISBN:

9780857051998

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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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Cataloguing, Classification and Distribution	940.54 VIN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B231966

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