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Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler's Aces [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 352 pages, height x width x depth: 241x167x33 mm, weight: 650 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 02-Apr-2015
  • Izdevniecība: MacLehose Press
  • ISBN-10: 085705192X
  • ISBN-13: 9780857051929
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 352 pages, height x width x depth: 241x167x33 mm, weight: 650 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 02-Apr-2015
  • Izdevniecība: MacLehose Press
  • ISBN-10: 085705192X
  • ISBN-13: 9780857051929
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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. From that first train journey to the last tragic disappearance, Vinogradova's panoramic account of these women's lives follows them from society balls to unmarked graves, from landmark victories to the horrors of Stalingrad. Battling not just fearsome Aces of the Luftwaffe but also patronising prejudice from their own leaders, women such as Lilya Litvyak and Ekaterina Budanova are brought to life by the diaries and recollections of those who knew them, and who watched them live, love, fight and die.

Recenzijas

What has been missing until now is a thoroughly researched account of all these pilots' wars, based on primary sources and stitched into the larger picture of the epic battle for what Hitler called the "world island" of central Russia. Defending the Motherland fills that void -- Giles Whittell * The Times * Brings to light the fascinating story of the world's first and only all-female aviation regiments . . . Not for the first time, one can't help being flabbergasted by the heroic achievements of the poverty-stricken and hounded peoples of the USSR -- Charlotte Hobson * Spectator * [ Vinogradova's] assiduous research, including numerous interviews with elderly veterans, has uncovered fascinating nuggets about the young female pilots' experience -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times * A gripping, unforgettable and heart-breaking story of female heroism in war and terror, written elegantly, filled with new research - archival and oral - and told here fully for the first time. Not just a tale of amazing derring-do, but a terrifying window into Stalinist Russia. Simply superb -- Simon Sebag Montefiore Lyuba Vinogradova tells the poignant story of the determined young women who fought and died in the air above Stalingrad and elsewhere in the epic struggle to expel the German invaders from their country. It is an absorbing and meticulously researched account -- Sir Rodric Braithwaite Remarkable . . . Vinogradova tells the stories Russian pilots with verve -- Erica Wagner * New Statesman * A feat of historical research and a wonderful, stirring read -- Rachel Polonsky Superbly written and researched . . . Vinogradova takes her place in the top flight of Russian historians -- Anna Reid The story of the Soviet airwomen is well told by Lyuba Vinogradova . . . She has done a huge amount of research, which shines through the pen portraits of the aviators and some of the vivid descriptions of the aerial battles -- Leo McKinstry * Literary Review * Vinogradova is excellent on the technical aspects and experience of flying the various aircraft . . . She is at her best, though, in bringing alive the quotidian details of wartime -- Wendy Slater * Times Literary Supplement *

List of Illustrations
15(2)
Introduction 17(2)
Antony Beevor
Preface 19(4)
1 "Girls -- pilot a plane!"
23(9)
2 "How can you photograph such misery?"
32(5)
3 "When you get to the front you can wrap your feet in newspaper"
37(6)
4 "So, they are taking even young girls?"
43(10)
5 "Why are you leaving us, children?"
53(9)
6 "She's just a young girl, hasn't seen people die"
62(13)
7 "No talking in the ranks!"
75(4)
8 "Stop flirting, there's a war on!"
79(16)
9 "An aircraft you could use to fight"
95(6)
10 "You ask how we drop bombs?"
101(9)
11 "It's simply wonderful! Imagine the speed!"
110(5)
12 "A whole lifetime older"
115(6)
13 "See that? Your planes have proved themselves"
121(5)
14 "Nails should be made out of people like these"
126(9)
15 Poetry and prose
135(3)
16 "But we'll beat them. We just have to not go soft"
138(8)
17 "What a misfortune, what a useless death"
146(3)
18 "Not one step back"
149(7)
19 "We can do anything, we never surrender"
156(4)
20 "Falling like vultures"
160(7)
21 "Blazing away in all directions"
167(16)
22 "You darling, you've shot down a Heinkel!"
183(4)
23 "Here goes!"
187(5)
24 "My sweet, winged Yak is a good machine"
192(8)
25 Caucasus
200(4)
26 "Are they young women, or scarecrows from the vegetable patch?"
204(7)
27 "We did not need to look for the target"
211(5)
28 "People are saying Boris Yeremin is scared of us"
216(14)
29 "If they get killed, you answer for it to me"
230(4)
30 "Marina Raskova, Hero of the Soviet Union, great Russian aviatrix, has concluded her glorious career"
234(10)
31 "Why would you want to expose yourself to deadly danger?"
244(6)
32 "Street women and all kinds of madcaps"
250(6)
33 "Despite the pain continued to fight the enemy"
256(6)
34 "The worst death"
262(5)
35 "Undue confidence, self-regard and lack of discipline"
267(6)
36 "Move it, will you? She's going to blow up!"
273(5)
37 "Katya's return"
278(3)
38 "I cried like I had never cried before"
281(13)
39 "I want to fly a mission. This is no time to rest"
294(6)
40 "Every word brings back again and again the grief and pain"
300(4)
41 "Wh-what kind of men are you not to be able to keep one g-girl safe?"
304(13)
Dramatis Personae 317(2)
Notes 319(12)
Bibliography 331(6)
Picture credits 337(1)
Acknowledgements 338(3)
Index 341
Lyuba Vinogradova (Author) Dr Lyuba Vinogradova was born in Moscow in 1973. After graduating from the Moscow Agricultural Academy with a PhD in microbiology, she took a second degree in foreign languages. In 1995 she was introduced to Antony Beevor and helped him research Stalingrad. Since then she has worked on many other research projects, and is the co-author (together with Beevor) of A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army.