Oh my God!!! Kate Quinn never disappoints but this one was by far the best so far. A story of Russia in the time of Hitler and Stalin. A time of war but more than that a story of one woman Ludmyla who was fighting for her country. Not for Russia. Not for Stalin. For her son to have a future. For her right to finish her history degree.
Mila Pavlichenko turns from student to sniper in hours after her homeland is invaded. She doesn't think about what she's done. She just knows she wants to fight. Mila quickly becomes a sniper who no man can match. The men discovered they needed her. I was completely surprised by this novel and how I could barely look away long enough to do other things in my life. I just finished and I'm already wanting to read it again.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet librarian who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story.
In the snowbound city of Kiev, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s invasion of Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper—a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour.
Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC—until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness. But when an old enemy from Mila’s past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life.
Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever.
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