BOOK REVIEW
The Huntress
Author: Kate Quinn
This is an impressive historical novel sure to grab WW11 fiction fans’
attention.
It is a story woven around a female Russian bomber pilot, Nazi hunters and a young Bostonian girl .
Nina Markova is a young Russian girl who has grown up on the icy edge of Soviet Russia with dreams of becoming a pilot. Her dreams are realised when, as war sweeps over her homeland, she trains and joins the infamous Night Witches, an all female night bombing regiment.
After being downed behind enemy lines she encounters a Nazi murderess known as the Huntress and is lucky to escape her clutches.
Meanwhile, a British journalist and his ‘offsider’ have witnessed the horrors of Omaha Beach and the Nuremburg trials. They abandon journalism to become Nazi hunters.
During their journey they meet up with Nina who is on a similar journey and they become united in their quest.
Their journey takes them across the Atlantic to Boston where they encounter a young gjrl of seventeen, Jordan McBride, who grows up in post WW11.
Jordan is delighted when her widowed father marries a softly spoken German widow, who is, from all accounts, a refugee trying to make a new
life in America.
This is a powerful story of the suspenseful quest for justice and the courage involved in that quest.
My love of WW11 stories, be they fiction or non fiction, has again been satisfied by this novel of Kate Quinn’s as she has once again drawn an amazing group of characters together to tell an amazing story.
ROSALIE HOWARTH
Author: Kate Quinn
This is an impressive historical novel sure to grab WW11 fiction fans’
attention.
It is a story woven around a female Russian bomber pilot, Nazi hunters and a young Bostonian girl .
Nina Markova is a young Russian girl who has grown up on the icy edge of Soviet Russia with dreams of becoming a pilot. Her dreams are realised when, as war sweeps over her homeland, she trains and joins the infamous Night Witches, an all female night bombing regiment.
After being downed behind enemy lines she encounters a Nazi murderess known as the Huntress and is lucky to escape her clutches.
Meanwhile, a British journalist and his ‘offsider’ have witnessed the horrors of Omaha Beach and the Nuremburg trials. They abandon journalism to become Nazi hunters.
During their journey they meet up with Nina who is on a similar journey and they become united in their quest.
Their journey takes them across the Atlantic to Boston where they encounter a young gjrl of seventeen, Jordan McBride, who grows up in post WW11.
Jordan is delighted when her widowed father marries a softly spoken German widow, who is, from all accounts, a refugee trying to make a new
life in America.
This is a powerful story of the suspenseful quest for justice and the courage involved in that quest.
My love of WW11 stories, be they fiction or non fiction, has again been satisfied by this novel of Kate Quinn’s as she has once again drawn an amazing group of characters together to tell an amazing story.
ROSALIE HOWARTH
