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Quinn, Kate

The diamond eye : a novel / Kate Quinn - 436 p. : 21 cm

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 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.


English

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Subjects--Personal Names:
Pavlychenko, Li︠u︡dmyla Mykhaĭlivna, 1916-1974 --Fiction
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 --Fiction

Subjects--Topical Terms:
World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union--Fiction
Snipers--Fiction
Women soldiers--Fiction
Librarians--Russia--Fiction

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Soviet Union--History--1925-1953--Fiction.
Russia--History--1917-1991, Soviet Union--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction
War fiction
Biographical fiction
Spy fiction

Dewey Class. No.: FIC QUI