The Diamond Eye
by Kate Quinn, 2022, Audiobook narrated by Saskia Maarleveld, Harper Audio
This is an historical novel portraying Mila Pavlichenko, a Russian librarian who decided to become an expert marksman and was subsequently recruited to be a sharpshooter in the Russian army in WWII. She accumulated 309 confirmed kills and was then asked to travel to the United States to tour the country giving talks to encourage U.S. support of the Russian war efforts. While in the U.S. she meets FDR and becomes a close confident of Eleanor Roosevelt.
The book is well written and the narrator does an excellent job. Most of the information about Pavlichenko is actual fact, although the author acknowledges in the afterword that she added some incidents toward the end of the book. These additions made the book much more thrilling, but I would probably have given it a higher rating if she hadn’t strayed so far from the actual facts.
It was an interesting book to listen to and I hadn’t previously heard anything about this extraordinary woman.
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