On the Road to Stalingrad: Memoirs of a Woman Machine Gunner
"The genuine value of these books and the interest they are bound to generate among specialists and general readers alike argue for their wider dissemination. The books should be made available to the wider audience they so richly deserve."  --David M. Glantz, Editor, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, in a review essay scheduled for publication in March 1999Another brilliant look inside the life of a true Russian hero who happens to be female. Nearly one million women served in the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II and many were active combatants. The author fought with the famous 25th Chapayev Division, and provides us with an honest eyewitness account of the desperate fighting for Odessa and Sevastopol. Another wonderful offering from New Military Publishing.  --Leslie Blanchard, Editor, A Writer's Choice Literary Journal, April 1999Cottam succeeded in collecting, translating, and editing unprecedented amounts of documentary evidence detailing the scope and importance of the participation of Soviet women in the war. Taken together, the four volumes capture the breadth and depth of the role of Soviet women in the war effort... The genuine value of these books and the interest they are bound to generate among specialists and general readers alike argue for their wider dissemination. The books should be made available to the wider audience they so richly deserve. (David M. Glantz, Editor, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, March 1999. (Colonel Glantz is founder and former director of the U.S. Army's Foreign Military Studies Office.)) --David M. Glantz, Editor, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies