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Defending the motherland : Russian airwomen in World War II / Lyuba Vinogradova ; introduction by Antony Beevor ; translated by Arch Tait.
- Title
- Defending the motherland : Russian airwomen in World War II / Lyuba Vinogradova ; introduction by Antony Beevor ; translated by Arch Tait.
- Author
- Vinogradova, Luba
- Publication
- London : MacLehose Press, 2015.
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- Additional Authors
- Tait, A. L.
- Description
- 349 pages; 22cm
- Summary
- 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 War.
- Subject
- Soviet Union. Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily > Women
- Soviet Union. Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily > History > World War, 1939-1945
- Soviet Union. Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, Soviet
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Eastern Front
- Military campaigns
- Military operations, Aerial > Soviet
- Women
- Eastern Front (World War (1939-1945))
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Translated from the Russian.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-335) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780857051929 (hbk.)
- 085705192X (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 898153891
- SCSB-12617067
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library