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# Avenging Angels: Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps Hardcover – May 9, 2017

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## Customer Reviews

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    Interesting, compelling read...
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2017*

Having just finished reading Avenging Angels, I thought I would write a few lines to give my thoughts on this work. Being a professionally amateur historian, the subject of the role of female snipers in the Soviet Army during WW2 was of great interest. I found this translation of Vinogradova's work to be compelling and interesting. She addresses the enlistment, training and deployment of women snipers in a broad, readable way. Various snipers are covered throughout the book; their recollections of combat, of friends lost and of a return to their homes after the war...where many were looked upon as having been only "front line wives" for the men at the front when nothing could have been further from the truth. The book kept my attention and enlightened a fascinating aspect of World War 2 that I had not previously considered.The author chose to bounce between soldiers in the book instead of concentrating on a single soldier's story at one time. This made keeping track of the names of each sniper slightly cumbersome as many names were similar. But this is a minor detraction from what I found to be an excellent work. I would give this 4 1/2 stars if possible...

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    Flawed, but still mostly worthwhile.
  

*by W***L on Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2017*

This book is a bit of a mixed-bag. Vinogradova, in many cases, got the last interviews with this generation of women before they passed. Their first-hand accounts are invaluable. In terms of scholarly history, however, she falters. She seems unwilling, or unable, to draw on the newly-public official records which are offering so many new perspectives on the war. She instead fills in her bibliography with secondary sources, often either outdated or popular history works. In some cases, this book feels like an afterthought to her "Defending the Motherland" - a story about a sniper captured by the Nazis diverts for several paragraphs to a story about an unrelated pilot's capture, before circling back to say that she doesn't really know what the sniper went through. It's confusing and unhelpful. As other reviewers have mentioned, she does jump back and forth between different girls' stories frequently. This, I think, is a trait of Russian writing in general, but it does demand the reader's concentration. Some of her arguments about the Red Army and the individual girl's experiences I found unconvincing and not properly supported.This is really the only, and therefore best, book about the USSR's female snipers in English, but it's definitely flawed. Read it if you're very interested in the subject, but take it with a grain of salt and don't let it be the only thing you read.

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    This will change what you thought you knew about WWII Soviet snipers
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2018*

Most of the existing books on Soviet snipers focus on one individual and their experiences. This book was written using information gleaned from diaries and interviews from dozens of snipers, which gives the reader a look at the individuals, as well as conditions as a whole. Information on training as well as their day to day job as snipers are chronicled as are the other jobs that they were "expected" to do as women. The survivors who contributed to this book also revealed the hardships suffered in the post-war Soviet Union by all it's citizens.The author did a good job of writing this as a narrative first, and a history text second, making this a very readable book.

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