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© 2015 by Lyuba Vinogradova

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Front jacket photograph: Lilya Litvyak, Katya Budanova and Masha Kuznetsova, Stalingrad, autumn 1942. From the collection of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents.

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Introduction © 2015 Antony Beevor

Maps © Bill Donohue

First published in the United States by Quercus in 2018

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