The Girls' Team

The true stories that make up this book recreate the vivid and bright details of a little-known page in the history of the Great Patriotic War. They tell of the complex and dangerous military work that was carried out alongside soldiers by dogs. Not only service animals, well-trained, but also simply those that were found in the starving, besieged Leningrad at the end of the first military winter. And the leaders of the dogs were Leningrad girls, yesterday's schoolgirls and students. Together with their four-legged helpers, selflessly, they saved human lives every day and every hour: evacuating the wounded, searching for and neutralizing mines.
These true stories — about the everyday life of the «Girls' Team», which included not only courage and self-sacrifice but also unwavering friendship and, of course, love.