The Diamond Eye - Kate Quinn
Category: Autobiography & Biographies
Tags: Autobiography & Biographies, Historical Fiction, Adults
Publisher: HarperAudio Release date: March 29, 2022 Duration: 12:51:55, An unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet librarian who becomes historys 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 sonbut Hitlers 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 snipera 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, DCuntil an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer
