The girls came from every corner of the U.S.S.R. They were factory workers, domestic servants, teachers & clerks, & 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, & 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-mans-land; they would become familiar with the awful power that comes with taking another persons life; & in turn they would discover how it feels to see your closest friends torn away from you by an enemy shell or bullet.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780857059291
• Author: Lyuba Vinogradova
• Publisher: Quercus
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 299
• Dimensions: 20 x 12 x 2cm











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