As deadly as the male: the story of the Red Army’s women snipers
History: Avenging Angels, By Lyuba Vinogradova, MacLehose Press, €17.25
For the duration of their titanic and ultimately unsuccessful battle with the USSR in World War II, the Nazis nursed a special strain of hatred for the women combatants who made up a large chunk of the Red Army’s troops. This wasn’t just because they were, well, Nazis and therefore pre-programmed to detest anybody who wasn’t a strapping Teutonic male.
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