Pavlichenko attained a final kill tally of 309, making her one of the top five deadliest snipers, period ... she was a research assistant at Soviet Navy headquarters. On October 10, 1974, Lyudmila ...

Like many young people in the Soviet Union at that time ... In very little time she distinguished herself as a fearsome sniper, killing 187 Germans in her first 75 days at war.

was published in the Soviet Union in 1985. It chronicles the everyday lives, emotions and thoughts of more than 500 women who served in the war as snipers, pilots, tank drivers, anti-aircraft ...