Katusha: Girl Soldier of the Great Patriotic War
May 2019 · Naval Institute Press
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On Sunday, June 22, 1941, the morning after Katusha's graduation, the Germans invade the Soviet Union. As enemy forces occupy Kiev, Ukraine, Katusha and her family learn the Nazis are not there to liberate them from harsh communist rule, but to conquer. They discover there is a special danger for the Jews, and in saving her friend Zhenya Gersteinfeld, Katusha finds her whole family in danger. During the next four years, Katusha experiences the war on the Eastern Front with all its ferocity and hardship: first as a partisan, then as a Red Army tank driver and commander. From Barbarossa to Babi Yar, from Stalingrad to Kursk, from the Dnipro to Berlin, follow the footprints and tanks tracks of Katusha's journey through a time of death, hopelessness, victory, glory, and even love. Seen through the eyes of a Ukrainian teenage girl, Katusha is both a coming-of-age story and a carefully researched account of one of the most turbulent and important periods of the twentieth century, where women served in the hundreds of thousands, and Russians died by the millions.
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Javier Barrales
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May 24, 2024
This story shows any citizens and civilians alike. In any country, are not really bad people. It's their governments and politicians, who have making them look bad. The citizens aren't the bad ones. It was the government and the folks in political views, who were exploiting the people. Rich, middle-class, and poor alike. Men, women, and children are being in danger. I felt pity for citizens across the globe. Not all main protagonists have to be older and job experts alike. Some protagonist are young, and in a coming of age scenario in life. One step at a time.
Marc lindell
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August 6, 2024
A masterpiece
About the author
For more than 30 years Wayne Vansant has been writing and illustrating comics and graphic novels on historic and military subjects, beginning with Marvel’s Savage Tales and The ‘Nam. Since then, he has produced Day of Darkness, Battron: The Trojan Woman, Blockade, The War in Korea, Stephan Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, Normandy, Grant vs. Lee, Bombing Nazi Germany, The Battle of the Bulge, The Red Baron, and others.
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