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02115aam a2200361Ia 4500 001 E816561E6B5711E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 141016t20152015enkabf b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2015376323 020 $a 0857051938 (paperback) 020 $a 9780857051936 (paperback) 020 $a 085705192X (hbk.) 020 $a 9780857051929 (hbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)898153891 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CDX $d YDXCP $d UAB $d NZHSD $d NLGGC $d DLC $d IWA $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h rus 050 4 $a D792 S65 V56 2015 100 1 $a Vinogradova, Lyuba, $e author. 245 10 $a Defending the motherland : $b the Soviet women who fought Hitler's aces / $c Lyuba Vinogradova ; with an introducation by Antony Beevor ; translated from the Russian by Arch Tait. 264 1 $a London : $b MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus, $c 2015. 300 $a 349 pages, [24] pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-335) and index. 520 $a 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. 546 $a Translated from the Russian. 610 10 $a Soviet Union. $b Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily $x Women. 610 10 $a Soviet Union. $b Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily $x History $y World War, 1939-1945. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Eastern Front. 700 1 $a Tait, A. L., $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170802035523.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E816561E6B5711E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search