'Girl with a Sniper Rifle'
A vivid account of training in the Central Women's Sniper School near Moscow
For decades after the war Yuliya Zhukova was traumatised by her experiences on the front line. It was only late in life that she found the capacity to write about it. The writing was an ordeal for her, dragging up many p…
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