Research Catalog

Title

Lady Death : the memoirs of Stalin's sniper / Lyudmila Pavlichenko ; foreword by Martin Pegler ; translated by David Foreman ; edited by Alla Igorevna Begunova.

Author

Pavlychenko, Li︠u︡dmyla Mykhaĭlivna, 1916-1974.

Publication

• Barnsley, S. Yorkshire : Greenhill Books, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pegler, Martin, 1954-
• Foreman, David
• Begunova, Alla

Description

xvii, 252 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.

Summary

"In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, she left her university studies, ignored the offer of a position as a nurse, to become one of Soviet Russia's 2000 female snipers. Less than a year later she had 309 recorded kills, including 29 enemy sniper kills. She was withdrawn from active duty after being injured. She was also regarded as a key heroic figure for the war effort. She spoke at rallies in Canada and the US and the folk singer Woody Guthrie wrote a song, 'Killed By A Gun' about her exploits. Her US trip included a tour of the White House with FDR. In November 1942 she visited Coventry and accepted donations of £4,516 from Coventry workers to pay for three X-ray units for the Red Army. She also visited a Birmingham factory as part of her fundraising tour."--Amazon.com.

Series Statement

Greenhill sniper library

Uniform Title

Greenhill sniper library.

Subjects

• Snipers
• Women soldiers
• HISTORY > Europe > Eastern
• Ukraine > Odesa
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Ukraine > Odesa
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Ukrainian
• Ukraine > Sevastopolʹ
• Autobiographies
• Pavlychenko, Li︠u︡dmyla Mykhaĭlivna, 1916-1974
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Military
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Ukraine > Sevastopolʹ
• HISTORY > Military > Special Forces
• Soviet Union
• Pavlychenko, Li͡udmyla Mykhaĭlivna, 1916-1974
• Snipers > Soviet Union > Biography
• World War (1939-1945)
• Military campaigns
• 1939-1945
• Biographies
• Women soldiers > Soviet Union > Biography
• HISTORY > Military > World War II
• Personal narratives > Ukrainian

Genre/Form

• Personal narratives.
• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.
• Personal narratives – Ukrainian.

Note

• "First published by Veche Publishers (Moscow) in 2015 as 'I - sniper : in battles for Sevastopol and Odessa'"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252).

Contents

Factory walls -- If there is a war -- From the Prut to the Dnyestr -- Frontiers of fire -- The battle at Tatarka -- Across the sea -- Legendary Sevastopol -- Forest trails -- The second assault -- Duel -- On No-Name Height -- The spring of 1942 -- A word from the Army Commander -- Moscow stars -- Mission to Washington -- My darling -- Island in the ocean -- 'Comrade Stalin has ordered us . . .' -- I am sidelined!

Call Number

JFE 19-10051

ISBN

• 9781784382704
• 1784382701

OCLC

991294669

Author

Pavlychenko, Li︠u︡dmyla Mykhaĭlivna, 1916-1974.

Title

Lady Death : the memoirs of Stalin's sniper / Lyudmila Pavlichenko ; foreword by Martin Pegler ; translated by David Foreman ; edited by Alla Igorevna Begunova.

Publisher

Barnsley, S. Yorkshire : Greenhill Books, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Greenhill sniper library

Greenhill sniper library.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252).

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Added Author

Pegler, Martin, 1954- writer of foreword.

Foreman, David, translator.

Begunova, Alla, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-10051