Witch of Stalingrad Microcosm Publishing Even as misunderstandings and expectations

Even as misunderstandings and expectations collide

Neither of them were expecting the turn of events that leaves them both confronting their past and weathering the present

and images in this book provide a compelling and layered narrative of her journey through the junctures of race

A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER

and the woods are haunted in ways Leslie does not understand

Witch of Stalingrad Microcosm Publishing Even as misunderstandings and expectationsAs the German Blitzkrieg brings the Soviet Union to its knees in 1942, a regiment of women aviators flies out at night in flimsy aircraft without parachutes or radios to harass the Wehrmacht troops. The Germans call them "Night Witches" and the best of them is Lilya Drachenko. From the other end of the world, photojournalist Alex Preston arrives to "get the story" for the American press and witnesses sacrifice, hardship, and desperate courage among