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As the German Blitzkrieg brings the Soviet Union to its knees in 1942, a regiment of women aviators flies out at night in flimsy aircraft without parachutes or radios to harass the Wehrmacht troops. The Germans call them "Night Witches" and the best of them is Lilya Drachenko. From the other end of the world, photojournalist Alex Preston arrives to "get the story" for the American press and witnesses sacrifice, hardship, and desperate courage among the Soviet women that is foreign to her. So also are their politics. While the conservative journalist and the communist Lilya clash politically, Stalingrad, the most savage battle of the 20th century, brings them together, until enemy capture and the lethal Russian winter tears them apart again.… (más)
That was a very nice book. And something different too. There are seemingly tons of books written about the European theater during World War II. From mysteries, to romance, lesbian, straight, and everything in between. But, I haven't read (or heard about) too many that take place around Russia, around the Soviet Union's part of the war. That's where this one takes place.
The two main characters in the novel were Lilya, a Soviet pilot, a 'Night Witch', who also flew fighters. And Alex, an American photojournalist who is covering the Eastern Front for her magazine. They meet and it's sort of love at first sight. But, because of the chaos of World War Two in the Soviet Union it's definitely not a straight forward love story.
One thing that I really liked about the book was the secondary characters. The author really gave a good sense of who these women were. Like Marina, one of the pilots in charge of all the women pilots, and Katia, a fellow pilot, or Inna, one of their mechanics. And even Anna, Lilay's mother, was really well written.
I also liked the PostScript at the end of the book with the history that the book was partially based on. It put the entire novel into context in a very cool way.
This was a good book, and although it was definitely not a short book it kept my attention the whole way through.
I got this advanced galley through Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books. ( )
As the German Blitzkrieg brings the Soviet Union to its knees in 1942, a regiment of women aviators flies out at night in flimsy aircraft without parachutes or radios to harass the Wehrmacht troops. The Germans call them "Night Witches" and the best of them is Lilya Drachenko. From the other end of the world, photojournalist Alex Preston arrives to "get the story" for the American press and witnesses sacrifice, hardship, and desperate courage among the Soviet women that is foreign to her. So also are their politics. While the conservative journalist and the communist Lilya clash politically, Stalingrad, the most savage battle of the 20th century, brings them together, until enemy capture and the lethal Russian winter tears them apart again.
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The two main characters in the novel were Lilya, a Soviet pilot, a 'Night Witch', who also flew fighters. And Alex, an American photojournalist who is covering the Eastern Front for her magazine. They meet and it's sort of love at first sight. But, because of the chaos of World War Two in the Soviet Union it's definitely not a straight forward love story.
One thing that I really liked about the book was the secondary characters. The author really gave a good sense of who these women were. Like Marina, one of the pilots in charge of all the women pilots, and Katia, a fellow pilot, or Inna, one of their mechanics. And even Anna, Lilay's mother, was really well written.
I also liked the PostScript at the end of the book with the history that the book was partially based on. It put the entire novel into context in a very cool way.
This was a good book, and although it was definitely not a short book it kept my attention the whole way through.
I got this advanced galley through Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books. (