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Lady Death : the memoirs of Stalin's sniper / Lyudmila Pavlichenko ; foreword by Martin Pegler ; translated by David Foreman ; edited by Alla Igorevna Begunova.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pavlychenko, LiÍ¡udmyla MykhaiÌlivna, 1916-1974.
- Series:
- Greenhill sniper library
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Women soldiers.
- Snipers.
- Soviet Union.
- Ukraine--Odesa.
- Ukraine--Sevastopolʹ.
- Ukraine.
- Sevastopolʹ.
- Pavlychenko, LiÍ¡udmyla MykhaiÌlivna, 1916-1974.
- Pavlychenko, LiÍ¡udmyla MykhaiÌlivna.
- Snipers--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Women soldiers--Soviet Union--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Ukrainian.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Ukraine--Sevastopolʹ.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Ukraine--Odesa.
- Military campaigns.
- HISTORY / Military / World War II.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.
- HISTORY / Military / Special Forces.
- Local Subjects:
- HISTORY / Military / World War II.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.
- HISTORY / Military / Special Forces.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives -- Ukrainian.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 252 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley, S. Yorkshire : Greenhill Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Pavlichenko was World War II's best-scoring sniper and had a varied wartime career that included trips to England and America. 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 She was withdrawn from active duty after being injured: she was also regarded as a key heroic figure for the war effort." --Publisher description.
- 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!.
- Notes:
- "First published by Veche Publishers (Moscow) in 2015 as 'I - sniper : in battles for Sevastopol and Odessa'"--title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781784382704
- 1784382701
- OCLC:
- 991294669
- Publisher Number:
- 99977159052
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