Lyudmila Pavlichenko LADY DEATH First Edition
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Lyudmila Pavlichenko LADY DEATH First Edition
First edition first print hardback of LADY DEATH: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper, by Lyudmila Pavlichenko (with Foreword by Martin Pegler, Translated by David Foreman and Edited by Alla Igorevna Begunova) and published by Greenhill Books in 2015.The book is in very good+ condition (red boards with silver lettering to spine) with light bumping to the corners and the top edge of the spine. The book is in a very good unclipped dust jacket which has light creasing and rubbing to the edges. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or inscriptions.
The wartime memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a remarkable document: the publication of an English language edition is a significant coup. Pavlichenko was World War II's best scoring sniper and had a varied wartime career that included trips to England and America.
In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, she left her university studies, ignored the offer of a position as a nurse, to become one of Soviet Russia's 2000 female snipers.
Less than a year later she had 309 recorded kills, including 29 enemy sniper kills. She was withdrawn from active duty after being injured. She was also regarded as a key heroic figure for the war effort.
She spoke at rallies in Canada and the US and the folk singer Woody Guthrie wrote a song, 'Killed By A Gun' about her exploits. Her US trip included a tour of the White House with FDR. In November 1942 she visited Coventry and accepted donations of ?4,516 from Coventry workers to pay for three X-ray units for the Red Army. She also visited a Birmingham factory as part of her fundraising tour.
She never returned to combat but trained other snipers. After the war, she finished her education at Kiev University and began a career as a historian. She died on October 10, 1974 at age 58, and was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.
252 pages including black & white photographs and Notes
ISBN: 1784382701
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