The Night Witches: A Novel

From the author of the bestselling Daughters of the Occupation comes a novel based on real-life Russian female aviators and their history-making regiment whose night bombing missions helped defeat the invading German army during World War II.

Marina Raskova, a divorced mother, is known as the "Soviet Amelia Earhart" for her long-distance world records as a flight navigator. In 1941, when the Germans attack her beloved motherland, extending their second front in the East, Marina leaves her po...