Foreword Review HISTORY Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko Greenhill Books (May 31, 2018) Hardcover $32.95 (272pp) 978-1-78438-270-4... Buy Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper (Greenhill Sniper Library) by Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Martin Pegler (ISBN: 9781784382704) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper by Lyudmila Pavlichenko My rating: 4 of 5 stars "Lyudmila Pavlichenko was not just any sniper, however, for she was to become the highest-scoring female sniper with 309 official kills.... About Author Lyudmila Pavlichenko was one of the top scoring snipers of World War II with 309 recorded kills. She died on October 10th 1974\. Martin Pegler was curator of firearms at the Royal Armouries for twenty years and during his career shoot almost every historic and current sniping rifle.
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.... Memoirs of the Ace Soviet "Girl" Sniper With 309 confirmed kills, and 200 more unconfirmed, Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916-1974) was probably the deadliest woman sniper in history. But before she was a sniper, she had been educated as an historian.
Get this from a library! Lady Death : the memoirs of Stalin's sniper. [Li︠u︡dmyla Mykhaĭlivna Pavlychenko; Martin Pegler; David Foreman; Alla Begunova] -- "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.
Stalin's lady killer When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June, 1941, 24-year-old Lyudmila Pavlichenko left her university studies to become one of Russia's 2,000 female snipers. With 309 recorded kills, she was among the war's top-scoring snipers.