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Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler´s Aces
Lyuba Vinogradova
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Description for Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler´s Aces
Paperback. The breathtaking story of the most successful female fighter pilots in history Translator(s): Tait, Arch. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBLW; HBWQ; JFSJ1; JWMV3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 284.
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 light night-bombers unique was their gender: the Soviet Union was creating the first all-female active combat units in modern history. Drawing on original interviews with surviving airwomen, Lyuba Vinogradova weaves together the untold stories of the female Soviet fighter pilots of the Second World ... Read more
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 light night-bombers unique was their gender: the Soviet Union was creating the first all-female active combat units in modern history. Drawing on original interviews with surviving airwomen, Lyuba Vinogradova weaves together the untold stories of the female Soviet fighter pilots of the Second World ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857051950
SKU
V9780857051950
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About Lyuba Vinogradova
Lyuba Vinogradova (Author) Dr Lyuba Vinogradova was born in Moscow in 1973. After graduating from the Moscow Agricultural Academy with a PhD in microbiology, she took a second degree in foreign languages. In 1995 she was introduced to Antony Beevor and helped him research Stalingrad. Since then she has worked on many other research projects, and is ... Read more
Reviews for Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler´s Aces
Following these women's stories with a focused lens and allowing the background themes to add to the narrative without shifting emphasis, this engaging work adds to the knowledge of the Soviet military effort of World War II, profiling its lesser-known heroines while also offering a straightforward critique of Soviet culture
Library Journal
Russian historian Vinogradova dove deeply into ... Read more
Library Journal
Russian historian Vinogradova dove deeply into ... Read more