The Diamond Eye A Novel
eBook - 2022
New York Times BestsellerThe bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story.In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and 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 o...n 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...
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HarperCollins
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- English
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File Size | 9 GB |
ISBN | 9780062943521 |
Release Date | 3/29/2022 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B0983KXF42 |
Release Date | 3/29/2022 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780062943521 |
Release Date | 3/29/2022 |