Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941–45

Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941–45
Author: Henry Sakaida
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2012-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 178096692X

When the Great Patriotic War began many women volunteered for the armed forces, but most of them were rejected. They were steered towards nursing or other supportive roles. Many determined women managed to enter combat by first volunteering as field medics and nurses, then simply picking up a gun during the battle, and charging boldly into the line of fire. In the area of aviation, women also contributed greatly to the war effort. In rickety biplanes, they flew bombing missions at night, without parachutes; their only protection was the darkness. This book tells the stories of the brave women that were awarded the Soviet Union's most prestigious title Hero of the Soviet Union for their bravery in protecting their homeland.

Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941–45

Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941–45
Author: Henry Sakaida
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2012-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1780966512

When the Great Patriotic War began many women volunteered for the armed forces, but most of them were rejected. They were steered towards nursing or other supportive roles. Many determined women managed to enter combat by first volunteering as field medics and nurses, then simply picking up a gun during the battle, and charging boldly into the line of fire. In the area of aviation, women also contributed greatly to the war effort. In rickety biplanes, they flew bombing missions at night, without parachutes; their only protection was the darkness. This book tells the stories of the brave women that were awarded the Soviet Union's most prestigious title Hero of the Soviet Union for their bravery in protecting their homeland.

Russia's Heroes

Russia's Heroes
Author: Albert Axell
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472103904

With Hitler's invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941, the Eastern front opened and politicians and generals around the world predicted the swift destruction of the Soviet armies. Nazi Germany threw its might against Russia: 5,000,000 men took part in the blitz attack along the Russian frontier. From interviews and primary evidence, much of it never previously published, unfolds the story of the Eastern Front, interweaving accounts of the men and women who served with the progress of the war itself. A tale of unbelievable heroism.

Heroes of the Soviet Union 1941–45

Heroes of the Soviet Union 1941–45
Author: Henry Sakaida
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2012-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1780966938

The Great Patriotic War began on 22 June 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. Over 10 million Soviet soldiers took part in the war and of those about 12,600 earned the Soviet Union's highest military award the Hero of the Soviet Union for deeds of great daring and self sacrifice. This book covers the male recipients of the Hero of the Soviet Union award during the Great Patriotic War. Snipers, fighter pilots, partisans and spies are all included, together with the famous aces Pokryshkin and Kozhedub, who both gained the award an amazing three times.

Avenging Angels

Avenging Angels
Author: Lyuba Vinogradova
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-04-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9780857051974

Heroes of the Soviet Union 1941–45

Heroes of the Soviet Union 1941–45
Author: Henry Sakaida
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2012-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1780966520

The Great Patriotic War began on 22 June 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. Over 10 million Soviet soldiers took part in the war and of those about 12,600 earned the Soviet Union's highest military award the Hero of the Soviet Union for deeds of great daring and self sacrifice. This book covers the male recipients of the Hero of the Soviet Union award during the Great Patriotic War. Snipers, fighter pilots, partisans and spies are all included, together with the famous aces Pokryshkin and Kozhedub, who both gained the award an amazing three times.

Women in the Stalin Era

Women in the Stalin Era
Author: Melanie Ilic
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2001-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230523420

This book brings together for the first time a collection of essays by western scholars about women in the Stalin era (1928-53). It explores both the realities of women's lived experience in the 1930s and 1940s, and the various forms in which womanhood and femininity were represented and constructed in these decades. Women in the Stalin Era challenges the scholarly neglect women's history has suffered at the hands, and pens, of Russian and western historians of the Stalin period.

Stalin's Folly

Stalin's Folly
Author: Konstantin Pleshakov
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0618773614

Stalin's cunning and ruthlessness brought him to supreme power in the Soviet Union. Yet in the summer of 1941 he appeared to lose his touch. With unparalleled access to the Soviet archives, this text reveals why the dictator behaved as he did.

Soviet Women in Combat

Soviet Women in Combat
Author: Anna Krylova
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total 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.

Finland at War

Finland at War
Author: Vesa Nenye
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 697
Release: 2016-03-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472815289

In the aftermath of the Winter War, Finland found itself drawing ever closer to Nazi Germany and eventually took part in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. For the Finns this was a chance to right the wrongs of the Winter War, and having reached suitable defensive positions, the army was ordered to halt. Years of uneasy trench warfare followed, known as the Continuation War, during which Finland desperately sought a way out, German dreams of victory were dashed, and the Soviet Union built the strongest army in the world. In the summer of 1944, the whole might of the Red Army was launched against the Finnish defences on the narrow Karelian Isthmus. Over several weeks of fierce fighting, the Finns managed to halt the Soviet assault. With Stalin forced to divert his armies to the race to Berlin, an armistice agreement was reached, the harsh terms of which forced the Finns to take on their erstwhile German allies in Lapland. Featuring rare photographs and first-hand accounts, this second volume of a two-part study, publishing in paperback for the first time, details the high price Finland had to pay to retain its independence and freedom.