The witch of Stalingrad
By: by Justine Saracen
Edition: FIrst edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781626393301
Subjects: Russian Aerial operations; Lesbians; World War, 1939-1945; Female Participation; Photojournalists; Women air pilots; Fiction
Description: "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"--Publisher's description.