Historic Photographs
Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko (? Shim Harno [Mr Robert Kemp] / Alamy)
Lyudmila Pavlichenko, propaganda photograph, Sevastopol, early 1942
Sniper platoon commander Lyudmila Pavlichenko with her troops (32nd Guards Parachute Division), Moscow military district, August 1942 (Courtesy of Greenhill Books)
Lyudmila Pavlichenko and Eleanor Roosevelt, USA tour, 1942 (? ITAR-TASS News Agency / Alamy)
Lyonya Kitsenko and Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Sevastopol, January 1942
Further Reading and Entertainment
Nonfiction
Alexeivich, Svetlana. The Unwomanly Face of War, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky. Random House, 2017.
Cook, Blanche Wiesen. Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939–1962. Viking, 2016.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, and Yuri Slezhine, eds. In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War. Princeton University Press, 2000.
Glantz, David, and Jonathan M. House. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, revised and expanded ed. University Press of Kansas, 2015.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt—The Home Front in World War II. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Markwick, Roger D., and Euridice Charon Cardona. Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Nikolaev, Yevgeni. Red Army Sniper: A Memoir on the Eastern Front in World War II. Greenhill Books, 2017.
Obratztsov, Youri, and Maud Anders. Soviet Women Snipers of the Second World War. Histoire and Collections, 2014.
Pavlichenko, Lyudmila. Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin’s Sniper, trans. David Foreman. Greenhill Books, 2018.
Vinogradova, Lyuba. Avenging Angels: Soviet Women Snipers on the Eastern Front (1941–45)。 Quercus, 2017.
Wacker, Albrecht. Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight’s Cross, reprint ed. Pen and Sword Military, 2016.
YouTube
“Lyudmila Pavlichenko—The Extraordinary Sniper.” Dubistic, September 23, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYnnBpxsI7s&ab_channel=dubistic.
“Lyudmila Pavlichenko Speech in New York City.” Pietrossino, YouTube, February 12, 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDO6n7GuslA&ab_channel=pietrossino.
Film
Battle for Sevastopol, 2015 biographical war film.
Enemy at the Gates, 2001 war film.
About the Author
KATE QUINN is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. A native of Southern California, she attended Boston University, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in classical voice. A lifelong history buff, she has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga and two books set in the Italian Renaissance before turning to the twentieth century with The Alice Network, The Huntress, The Rose Code, and The Diamond Eye. All have been translated into multiple languages. She and her husband now live in California with three black rescue dogs.
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Praise for The Diamond Eye
“Kate Quinn amazes me. With each new book she reaches new heights in her craft as a writer of page-turning plots and prose. The Diamond Eye is a remarkable story filled with heart, intrigue, breathtaking drama, and, perhaps best of all, meticulously researched details that prove that history provides the absolute best raw material for storytelling. Like her sniper subject Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Kate Quinn has brilliantly hit her mark—this is a stunning novel about a singular historical heroine.”