Alena FLIMELOVÁ – Roman ŠTÉR, In the shadow of men. Women in Czechoslovak military units on the Eastern Front in 1942–1945, Prague: Academia 2021, 491 p.

Abstract

The book deals with the issue of women in Czechoslovak military units in the USSR, who worked mainly in the medical service, with signalmen, in administration and as anti-aircraft gunners. In total, there were almost 1,000 women in the Czechoslovak units.

Czech, Ruthenians, Polish and Jewish women predominated among them.

Keywords

• World War II
• Eastern Front
• women in the armed forces