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040			_aKenya National Library Service
082			_a940.54 VIN
100			_aVinogradova, Lyuba _eauthor
245			_aAvenging angels : _bsoviet women snipers on the eastern front (1941-45) / _cLyuba Vinogradova ,Anna Reid ; translated from the Russian by Arch Tait
300			_a299 pages : _bportraits ; _c20 cm.
504			_aIncludes index
520			_aBeginning 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.
650			_aHistory of Europe
650			_aMilitary history of world war ii
700			_aReid, Anna _eauthor
700			_aTait, Arch _etranslator
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