Title: A Thousand SistersBook List: Award Winning Teen Nonfiction for High Schoolers, Interesting Nonfiction & Biographies for Teens, Summer Fun Reads for Teens
Published by: Balzer & Bray
Author: Wein, Elizabeth
Genre: Teen
Pages: 388
ISBN13: 9780062453013
Add on GoodreadsFinalist 2020 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
The true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II.
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, sidebars, and thoroughly researched details, A Thousand Sisters is the 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.
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