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Avenging Angels - Soviet women snipers on the Eastern front (1941-45) (Paperback)
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Avenging Angels - Soviet women snipers on the Eastern front (1941-45) (Paperback)
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"Lyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye. By
personally interviewing many of the Russian women who as teenagers
during WW2 took up arms to defend the motherland, her story becomes
undeniably poignant and powerful" MARTIN CRUZ SMITH, author of
Gorky Park The girls came from every corner of the U.S.S.R. They
were factory workers, domestic servants, teachers and clerks, and
few were older than twenty. Though many had led hard lives before
the war, nothing could have prepared them for the brutal facts of
their new existence: with their country on its knees, and millions
of its men already dead, grievously wounded or in captivity, from
1942 onwards thousands of Soviet women were trained as snipers.
Thrown into the midst of some of the fiercest fighting of the
Second World War they would soon learn what it was like to spend
hour upon hour hunting German soldiers in the bleak expanses of
no-man's-land; they would become familiar with the awful power that
comes with taking another person's life; and in turn they would
discover how it feels to see your closest friends torn away from
you by an enemy shell or bullet. In a narrative that travels from
the sinister catacombs beneath the Kerch Peninsula to Byelorussia's
primeval forests and, finally, to the smoking ruins of the Third
Reich, Lyuba Vinogradova recounts the untold stories of these brave
young women. Drawing on diaries, letters and interviews with
survivors, as well as previously unpublished material from the
military archives, she offers a moving and unforgettable record of
their experiences: the rigorous training, the squalid living
quarters, the blood and chaos of the Eastern Front, and those
moments of laughter and happiness that occasionally allowed the
girls to forget, for a second or two, their horrifying
circumstances. Avenging Angels is a masterful account of an
all-too-often overlooked chapter of history, and an unparalleled
account of these women's lives. Translated from the Russian by Arch
Tait
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