Girl With A Sniper Rifle: An Eastern Front Memoir

by Yulia Zhukova Narrated by Christa Lewis

Overview

Luliia was a dedicated member of the Komsomol (the Soviet communist youth organization) and her parents worked for the NKVD. She started at the sniper school and eventually became a valued member of her battalion during operations against Prussia.

She persevered through eight months of training before leaving for the Front on 24th November 1944 just days after qualifying. Joining the third Belorussian Front her battalion endured rounds of German mortar as well as loudspeaker announcements beckoning them to come over to the German side.

Luliia recounts how they would be in the field for days, regularly facing the enemy in terrifying one-on-one encounters. She sets down the euphoria of her first hit and starting her "battle count" but her reflection on how it was also the ending of a life.

Like her famous counterpart Pavlichenko she gained recognition but struggled to come to terms with war service. Haunted by flashbacks she burned the letters she sent home from the Front. She later discovered that of the 1885 graduates of her sniper school only 250 had died in war.

Editorial Reviews

WWII and other Book Reviews

"...while Zhukova might not have experienced years on the front line, her few months left her with memories and experiences that help us better understand what Red Army forces experienced, survived, and what many Soviet women had to contend with in addition to the enemy during their time at the front."

Midwest Book Review

" Providing an absolutely fascinating, impressively informative, deeply personal account, 'Girl With A Sniper Rifle: An Eastern Front Memoir' will prove to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to community and academic library World War II Military History & Biography collections."

Leatherneck Magazine

"An insightful, thoroughly absorbing, first-person account of being a successful Russian female sniper."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173885494
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	12/19/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged

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