Lady Death

The memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the Russian woman who was WWII''s most accomplished sniper—and a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt.In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Lyudmila Pavlichenko left her university studies, ignored the offer of a position as a nurse, and became one of Soviet Russia''s two thousand female snipers. Less than a year later, she had 309 recorded kills, incl...