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    A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
    A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
    A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
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    A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II

    Written by Elizabeth Wein

    Narrated by Amy Landon

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    Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist!

    The gripping true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II—from Elizabeth Wein, award-winning author of Code Name Verity

    In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment—nicknamed the “night witches”—faced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the ground. Some of these young women perished in flames. Many of them were in their teens when they went to war.

    This is the story of Raskova’s three regiments, women who enlisted and were deployed on the front lines of battle as navigators, pilots, and mechanics. It is the story of a thousand young women who wanted to take flight to defend their country, and the woman who brought them together in the sky.

    Packed with black-and-white photographs, fascinating sidebars, and thoroughly researched details, A Thousand Sisters is the inspiring true story of a group of women who set out to change the world, and the sisterhood they formed even amid the destruction of war.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 22, 2019
    ISBN9780062885586
    Author

    Elizabeth Wein

    Elizabeth Wein was born in New York, and grew up in England, Jamaica and Pennsylvania. She is married with two children and now lives in Perth, Scotland. Elizabeth is a member of the Ninety-Nines, the International Organization of Women Pilots. She was awarded the Scottish Aero Club's Watson Cup for best student pilot in 2003 and it was her love of flying that partly inspired the idea for 'Code Name Verity'. 'Rose Under Fire' is the sequel to her widely acclaimed title.

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    • 3/5
      So many fascinating details, this is a great choice if you (like me) know very little about the eastern front of WWII. That said, I feel like this read much more like an adult non-fiction than a YA book. If you like YA non-fiction because it tends to be a quicker read, this is kind of the opposite of that.
    • 5/5
      This is AMAZING. It is aimed at young people, and as I started reading, I wondered if I would find the writing style too simplistic, but instead it was just remarkably accessible. I knew bits and pieces about this part of Russia’s history -- from school and from books, including Wein’s novella Firebird -- but A Thousand Sisters gave me a much more comprehensive understanding. Of the culture and the political context that these airwomen had grown up in, and how this created a generation of young women who expected that they would be doing the same jobs as men when war came.And that’s just how Russia came to have three regiments of airwomen, at a point in time when other countries weren’t letting any women into their airforces, certainly not as pilots in combat situations. The rest of the book is just as fascinating and surprising, and left me eager to talk about what I’d just learnt. Wein knows how to tell a story.It’s the story of a thousand young women who grew up inspired by Marina Raskova and who were ready to follow her into the air.It’s the story of a generation of young people who learned to work with the wind—those who soared and those who came back to earth.This is the story of a thousand sisters fighting and flying.