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Index
Cover
Defending the Motherland
Also by Lyuba Vinogradova
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Maps
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Preface
1. “Girls—pilot a plane!”
2. “How can you photograph such misery?”
3. “When you get to the front you can wrap your feet in newspaper”
4. “So, they are taking even young girls”
5. “Why are you leaving us, children?”
6. “She’s just a young girl, hasn’t seen people die”
7. “No talking in the ranks!”
8. “Stop flirting! There’s a war on!”
9. “An aircraft you could use to fight”
10. “You ask how we drop bombs?”
11. “It’s simply wonderful! Imagine the speed!”
12. “A whole lifetime older”
13. “See that? Your planes have proved themselves”
14. “Nails should be made out of people like these”
15. Poetry and Prose
16. “But we’ll beat them. We just have to not go soft”
17. “What a misfortune, what a useless death”
18. “Not one step back”
19. “We can do anything, we never surrender”
20. “Falling like vultures”
21. “Blazing away in all directions”
22. “You darling, you’ve shot down a Heinkel!”
23. “Here goes!”
24. “My sweet, winged Yak is a good machine”
25. Caucasus
26. “Are they young women, or scarecrows from the vegetable patch?”
27. “We did not need to look for the target”
28. “People are saying Boris Yeremin is scared of us”
29. “If they get killed, you answer for it to me”
30. “Marina Raskova, hero of the Soviet Union, great Russian aviatrix, has concluded her glorious career”
31. “Why would you want to expose yourself to deadly danger?”
32. “Street women and all sorts of madcaps”
33. “Despite the pain continued to fight the enemy”
34. “The worst death”
35. “Undue self-confidence, self-regard and lack of discipline”
36. “Move it will you? She’s going to blow up”
37. Katya’s return
38. “I cried like I had never cried before”
39. “I want to fly a mission. This is no time to rest”
40. “Every word brings back again and again the grief and pain”
41. “Wh-what kind of men are you not to be able to keep one g-girl safe?”
Dramatis Personae
Notes
Bibliography
Picture credits
Acknowledgments
Index
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