Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers

Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers (ISBN# 0-9682702-2-0), the fourth book in a series titled SOVIET WOMEN IN COMBAT IN WORLD WAR II, is a collection about decorated female military aviation and ground forces personnel, as well as marines, partisans and secret agents. Kazimiera J. Cottam, the author/translator of the series, was awarded the prestigious 1999 Mary Zirin Prize by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (affiliated with the AAASS). The other titles are as follows: On the Road to Stalingrad: Memoirs of a Woman Machine Gunner (ISBN# 0-9682702-0-4), narrated by Zoya Smirnova-Medvedeva, the principal heroine, is an eyewitness account of the desperate defense of Odessain Sevastopol in 1941-1942; Women in Air War: The Eastern Front of World War II (ISBN# 0-9682702-1-2), a collection of memoirs, features three unique women's air wings: night bombers, dive bombers and fighters; Defending Leningrad: Women Behind Enemy Lines (ISBN# 0-9682702-3-9) tells the poignant story of two women partisans and one spy: Inna Konstantinova, an author of a wartime diary, Masha Poryvayeva and Zoya Kruglova-Baiger. "The[se] books should be made available to the wider audience they so richly deserve." (David M. Glantz, Editor, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, March 1999.) Please consult my site http://webhome.idirect.com/~kjcottam/welcome.htm for detailed information about the series."Cottam, Kazimiera J. is the author of 'Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers', published 1998 under ISBN 9780968270226 and ISBN 0968270220.