Ebook: Avenging angels: Soviet women snipers on the Eastern Front (1941-1945)
Author: Reid Anna, Tait A. L., Vinogradova Luba
- Tags: HISTORY / Europe / Western, Military campaigns, Military participation--Female, Snipers, Snipers--Soviet Union, Snipers--Soviet Union--History, Women in war, Women in war--Soviet Union, Women in war--Soviet Union--History, Women soldiers, Women soldiers--Soviet Union, Women soldiers--Soviet Union--History, World War 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front, World War 1939-1945--Participation Female, World War 1939-1945--Soviet Union, Biographies, History, World War 1939-1945 -- Participation Female, Snipers --
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Quercus
- City: Soviet Union
- Language: English
- epub
Beginning in 1942, with the Easter 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. Drawing on original interviews, diaries, and previously unpublished archival material, historian Lyuba Vinogradova has produced an unparalleled quilt of first-person narratives about these women's lives.
After a few months of brutal training, the female snipers were issued with high-powered rifles and sent to the front. Almost without exception, their first kill came as a great shock, and changed them forever. But as the number of kills grew, many snipers became addicted to their new profession, some to the point of becoming depressed if a "hunt" proved fruitless.
Accounts from the veterans of the female...
After a few months of brutal training, the female snipers were issued with high-powered rifles and sent to the front. Almost without exception, their first kill came as a great shock, and changed them forever. But as the number of kills grew, many snipers became addicted to their new profession, some to the point of becoming depressed if a "hunt" proved fruitless.
Accounts from the veterans of the female...
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