An Unexpected Friendship
I am sharing another book set during World War II, but on a different front. Today, the focus is The Diamond Eye. This book was really not what I thought it would be. Yes, it is another World War II book, but this time readers are taken to the Soviet front. They get to learn about Mila Pavlichenko . Synopsis: “In the snowbound city of Kiev, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s 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 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 glitter...