Elizabeth Wein Thousand Sisters, A Paperback Book Elizabeth Wein Multicolor

Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist! The gripping true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War IIfrom Elizabeth Wein, awardwinning author of Code Name VerityIn the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, including the 588th Night Bomber Regimentnicknamed the night witchesfaced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the ground. Some of these young women perished in flames. Many of them were in their teens when they went to war. This is the story of Raskovas three regiments, women who enlisted and were deployed on the front lines of battle as navigators, pilots, and mechanics. It is the story of a thousand young women who wanted to take flight to defend their country, and the woman who brought them together in the sky. Packed with blackandwhite photographs, fascinating sidebars, and t