{"product_id":"avenging-angels-9780857051998","title":"Avenging Angels","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fascinating story of the young women who served as Soviet snipers during the Second World War\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWell written, engaging and enlightening. -- Roger Moorhouse * The Times. *\u003cbr\u003eRevelatory and gripping. Deftly weaving together the personal - untold - stories of those Russian women who fought as frontline snipers, the author provides  a chilling but moving insight into the realities of a brutal struggle. -- Jonathan Dimbleby\u003cbr\u003eA riveting study of individuals who saw and did things no woman or man should ever have to . . . Vinogradova is clearly enthralled, if not enraptured, by her subjects. -- Jonathan O'Brien * Sunday Business Post. *\u003cbr\u003eLyuba Vinogradova has written an impressive book, and drawing on letters, diaries and interviews with doughty survivors, she has woven a powerful and moving account of a people at war and of women rising up to take arms, free their country - and, paradoxically, assert their common humanity -- Eamon Delaney * Irish Independent *\u003cbr\u003eA detailed and vividly immediate account. -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eDescribes in detail how hardened Soviet female soldiers became ruthless crack shots behind enemy lines on the bitter Eastern Front. * Irish Independent Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eLyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye. By personally interviewing many of the Russian women who as teenagers during WW2 took up arms to defend the motherland, her story becomes undeniably poignant and powerful -- Martin Cruz Smith","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738498773335,"sku":"9780857051998","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857051998.jpg?v=1720048871","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/avenging-angels-9780857051998","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}