Elizabeth Wein - A Thousand Sisters—in Children and Teens

In the early years of World War II, Marina Raskova, a record-breaking Russian pilot, convinced the Soviet Union to create women’s air regiments, making them the first country to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Using photographs and numerous primary sources, Wein chronicles a groundbreaking history about the thousand women who enlisted to fight on the front lines as navigators, pilots, and mechanics. It is the story of women who set out to change the world, and the sisterhood they formed amidst the destruction of war. Ages 13 and up.