Lady Death: Lyudmila Pavlichenko and the 309 Shots That Shamed a Room Full of Men

She was a history student from Kyiv who had never meant to be a soldier. By the age of twenty-five she had killed 309 enemy soldiers with a rifle, survived the two worst sieges on the Eastern Front, and stood before a room of American reporters to ask them, coldly, how long they intended to hide behind her back. This is the story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the deadliest woman ever to carry a gun to war.