R. Markwick & E. Charon Cardona 
Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War 

This is the first comprehensive study in English of Soviet women who fought against the genocidal, misogynist, Nazi enemy on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on a vast array of original archival, memoir, and published sources, this book captures the everyday experiences of Soviet women fighting, living and dying on the front.

Table of Content

Introduction The Making of the Frontovichki ‘War is not women’s business’ Sisters of Mercy ‘Falcons’ and ‘Witches’ Behind Enemy Lines Mass Mobilization Women’s Volunteer Rifle Brigade The Sniper Movement Epilogue: Half-hidden from History Bibliography & Sources

About the author

ROGER MARKWICK Associate Professor of Modern European History, the University of Newcastle, Australia. His Rewriting
History in Soviet Russia: The Politics of Revisionist Historiography in the Soviet Union, 1956-1974 won the Alexander Nove Prize in Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Studies for 2001. His latest research is on Soviet women on the home front during the Second World War. EURIDICE CHARON CARDONA Senior Research Associate in the School of Humanities and Social Science, the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has a particular research interest in Soviet medicine and nursing during the Second World War. She holds a Ph D in anthropology from the University of Newcastle, Australia (2008), and an MA in history from the University of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.