This book by Lyuba Vinogradova, translated into English and available from Amazon, is another interesting read. It really does give a lot of information about the state of affairs in the Soviet Union before and during the early parts of WWII by the individual stories of the surviving snipers interviewed by the author and somewhat by published stories and letters from WWII. The author does bring out inconsistencies in records vs. what have been reported in articles and histories of some snipers. For example regarding Lyudmila Pavlichenko the author rights regarding her numbers "I suspect these questions will remain unanswered forever. As if Lyudmila Pavlichenko had not confused the issue sufficiently, her biographers duly piled in, even mentioning her "sniper's record book". If such a book exists, it is a forgery, because they appeared in the Red Army only in 1943, when her sniping career was already over".
This book goes more into the hardships of Soviet life for the unprivileged majority. And it also describes how these young women tried to make the best of what they had at the front.
This is another interesting historical book.
