**Ukrainian place names are listed in-text in THE DIAMOND EYE with the Russian spelling, since that is the terminology Lyudmila Pavlichenko would have known and used in her lifetime. 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.īased 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. 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 during a trip to Washington DC in 1942 to drum up American.
The Diamond Eye is a historical fiction novel based on WWII Soviet sniper, Lyudmila (Mila)Pavlichenko, a woman who the Soviets claimed had more than 300 kills to her name. 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. Kate Quinn is a kickass writer who immediately makes me care as deeply about the main protagonist as she does. 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. 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.
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