A powerful first-person accounts by five decorated Soviet women as they describe risking and defining their lives by stepping into a man's world and fighting amid blood, lice and death. Why did they enlist, what did they do, what was combat really like, what were their relationships with men, what gave them strength and laughter, how do they reflect upon those years? UNDER FIRE is their final, living chronicle of the untold story of women in combat.—Anonymous