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The diamond eye : a novel / Kate Quinn.

Quinn, Kate, (author.).

Summary:

In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as 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 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062943514
  • ISBN: 0062943510
  • ISBN: 9780063144705
  • Physical Description: 435 pages : illustrations, map on endpapers ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : HarperCollins ; [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes further reading.
Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary.
Subject: Pavlychenko, Li͡udmyla Mykhaĭlivna, 1916-1974 > Fiction.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Soviet Union > Fiction.
Snipers > Fiction.
Women soldiers > Fiction.
Librarians > Russia > Fiction.
Russia > Fiction.
Genre: Spy fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.

Available copies

  • 67 of 81 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Reynolds County Library District.

Holds

  • 2 current holds with 81 total copies.
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