In August 1941, a prototype women’s uniform was created, with a dress instead of a tunic, first made of cotton and then wool, and with a beret instead of a forage cap. Women appeared at the ...

In August 1941, a prototype women’s uniform was created, with a dress instead of a tunic, first made of cotton and then wool, and with a beret instead of a forage cap. Women appeared at the ...

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II. Early in “The Unwomanly Face of War,” Svetlana Alexievich’s harrowing and moving account of female Soviet soldiers during ...

About a million women fought in the Soviet army during a war that spanned from 1939 to 1945, devastating much of Europe and reaching far into Russia.