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Night Witches: The Amazing Story Of Russia's Women Pilots in World War 11 | 
 enlarge | Author: Bruce Myles
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 714829
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1997
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0897332881
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.544947
EAN: 9780897332880
ASIN: 0897332881
Publication Date: June 1, 1990
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 Good, but it needs to be accompanied by much more information to get a true picture (a history teacher's review) December 30, 2007
'Night Witches' is a history of Soviet women's fighter and bomber units in World War II. It is based on extensive interviews with the survivors. Myles has worked these interviews into a remarkably entertaining and informative read that is marred only by what the text is lacking: maps, more details about their planes and the planes of their enemies and other Soviet units, more detail about how the Soviets used these planes in conjunction with other units and an over-arching historical narrative to place these women in their historical context.
My copy was published in 1990 and I was disappointed to find that it literally fell apart as I was reading it - the binding was very fragile and the pages fell out individually and in chunks.
 great book! October 5, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a pilot and also someone who was dating a Russian girl, so I may be a bit biased, but I thought this book was just great. It has humor, romance, flying, sadness, reality, and history. It's told in a captivating manner. Highly recommended!
a good book October 31, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I like this book very much. I am waiting for the movie it is being filmed right now in Russia. (..) The heroines deserve to have their stroy told so everybody will know about them. I enjoyed the story of Lily Litvak (...) This book tells her true story and the story of other Russian women who fought in World War 2.
a good book October 31, 2001
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I like this book very much. I am waiting for the movie it is being filmed right now in Russia. It will be in Russian and English language. The heroines deserve to have their stroy told so everybody will know about them. I enjoyed the story of Lily Litvak who shot down the famous Nazi. The Nazi didn't believe it was a girl who had defeated him until he met her and she described the fight. Then he just put his head down in disgrace! This book tells her true story and the story of other Russian women who fought in World War 2.
Night Witches August 2, 2001
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
Night Witches is a pioneer and readable non-fiction book about Soviet airwomen in combat in World War II. However, it is bad journalism as it was written in a somewhat sensational manner and is full of petty mistakes, such as misspelled names, and airwomen assigned to wrong photo captions, ranks, appointments, and even regiments. The appellation "Night Witches" itself, coined by the enemy, was considered offensive by Soviet airwomen. Night Witches has been largely superseded by books written or edited by the following: Anne Noggle (A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II, 1994); Kazimiera J. Cottam (Women in Air War: The Eastern Front in World War II and Women in War and Resistance, 1997 and 1998); and a forthcoming book by Reina Pennington (Wings, Women and War: Soviet Women in Military Aviation in the Second World War, University Press of Kansas, 2001).
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