Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War
Title | Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War PDF eBook |
Author | R. Markwick |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2012-06-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230362540 |
This is the first comprehensive study in English of Soviet women who fought against the genocidal, misogynist, Nazi enemy on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on a vast array of original archival, memoir, and published sources, this book captures the everyday experiences of Soviet women fighting, living and dying on the front.
Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War
Title | Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War PDF eBook |
Author | R. Markwick |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2012-06-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780230579521 |
This is the first comprehensive study in English of Soviet women who fought against the genocidal, misogynist, Nazi enemy on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on a vast array of original archival, memoir, and published sources, this book captures the everyday experiences of Soviet women fighting, living and dying on the front.
The Unwomanly Face of War
Title | The Unwomanly Face of War PDF eBook |
Author | Светлана Алексиевич |
Publisher | |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0399588728 |
"Originally published in Russian as U voiny--ne zhenskoe lietiso by Mastatskaya Litaratura, Minsk, in 1985. Originally published in English as War's unwomanly face by Progress Publishers, Moscow, in 1988"--Title page verso.
Defending Leningrad
Title | Defending Leningrad PDF eBook |
Author | Kazimiera Janina Cottam |
Publisher | Nepean, ON : New Military Pub. |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Stories detailing the activities of Russian women soldiers
Soviet Women in Combat
Title | Soviet Women in Combat PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Krylova |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-09-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781107699403 |
Soviet Women in Combat explores the unprecedented historical phenomenon of Soviet young women's en masse volunteering for World War II combat in 1941 and writes it into the twentieth-century history of women, war, and violence. The book narrates a story about a cohort of Soviet young women who came to think about themselves as "women soldiers" in Stalinist Russia in the 1930s and who shared modern combat, its machines, and commanding positions with men on the Eastern front between 1941 and 1945. The author asks how a largely patriarchal society with traditional gender values such as Stalinist Russia in the 1930s managed to merge notions of violence and womanhood into a first conceivable and then realizable agenda for the cohort of young female volunteers and for its armed forces. Pursuing the question, Krylova's approach and research reveals a more complex conception of gender identities.
Night Witches at War
Title | Night Witches at War PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Berglund |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2019-05-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1496628225 |
Flying combat missions in wartime is always dangerous. But imagine doing so in a slow, rickety biplane, at night, with no lights or navigational equipment of any kind. Sound impossible? It wasn't for the Soviet Night Witches. This unit of incredibly brave women flew hundreds of missions to attack German forces on the front lines during World War II. Learn all about these brave women and how their skill and courage in battle helped defeat the Nazis to win the war.
Flying for Her Country
Title | Flying for Her Country PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Goodpaster Strebe |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2007-08-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1567206727 |
During the Second World War, women pilots were given the opportunity to fly military aircraft for the first time. In the United States, famed aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran formed the Women Airforce Service Pilots program, where over one thousand women flyers ferried aircraft from factories to airbases throughout the United States and Canada from 1942 to 1944. The WASP operated from 110 facilities and flew more than 60 million miles in 78 different types of aircraft, from the smallest trainers to the fastest fighters and the largest bombers. The WASP performed every duty inside the cockpit as their male counterparts, except combat, and 38 women pilots gave their lives in the service of their country. Notwithstanding their outward appearance as official members of the U.S. Army Air Forces, the WASP were considered civil servants during the war. Despite a highly publicized attempt to militarize in 1944, the women pilots would not be granted veteran status until 1977. In the Soviet Union, Marina Raskova, Russia's Amelia Earhart, famous for her historic Far East flight in 1938, formed the USSR's first all-female aviation regiments that flew combat missions along the Eastern Front. A little over one thousand women flew a combined total of more than 30 thousand combat sorties, producing at least 30 Heroes of the Soviet Union. Included in their ranks were at least two fighter aces. More than 50 women pilots were killed in action. Sharing both patriotism and a mutual love of aviation, these pioneering women flyers faced similar obstacles while challenging assumptions of male supremacy in wartime culture. Despite experiencing discrimination from male aircrews during the war, these intrepid airwomen ultimately earned their respect. The pilots' exploits and their courageous story, told so convincingly here, continue to inspire future generations of women in aviation.