Lyuba Vinogradova: 2 books
Avenging Angels
Soviet women snipers on the Eastern front (194145)
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
"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...
Defending the Motherland
The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler's Aces
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th Heavy-bomber Regiment and the 588th Regiment of...