There are just nine qualified female snipers in the U.S. military today. As that number grows, those women will be comparing themselves to a Russian girl who began working at a munitions factory ...

The women covered include warrior queen Lakshmi Bai, sword master diplomat Chevalier d'Eon and Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who is believed to have killed more than 300 Nazi soldiers during ...

With 309 confirmed kills, and 200 more unconfirmed, Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916-1974) was probably the deadliest woman sniper in history. But before she was a sniper, she had been educated as an ...