Tuesday, May 5, 2009

GARTH ENNIS: BATTLEFIELDS THE NIGHT WITCHES - FEMALE SOVIET WW2 BOMBER SQUADRON #1 COMIC BOOK RUSSIAN

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BATTLEFIELDS: THE NIGHT WITCHES #1 COMIC BOOK

OUT OF PRINT. HARD TO FIND COLLECTOR'S ITEM FEATURING A FEMALE SOVIET BOMBER SQUADRON DURING WORLD WAR 2.

Based on the real WW2 Soviet female combat pilots! The Night Witches (Nachthexen in German, Ночные ведьмы in Russian) was the nickname the Germans gave to the World War II Soviet Air Forces Night Bomber Regiment, a women-only combat regiment

THIS ITEM WAS ONLY AVAILABLE IN COMIC BOOK SPECIALTY SHOPS AND CANNOT BE FOUND IN ANY MASS MARKET RETAIL OUTLET.

Garth Ennis is probably best known for his hard-hitting but historically accurate and empathetic War Stories, fictionalising the heroics of War without shying too far away from the immense destructive force of modern warfare.

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From the acclaimed writer of the hit series PREACHER, these are the finest war comics ever to see print in the modern age.

Late summer, 1942. As the German army smashes deep into Soviet Russia and the defenders of the Motherland retreat in disarray, a new bomber squadron arrives at a Russian forward airbase. Its crews will fly flimsy wooden biplanes on lethal night missions over German lines, risking fiery death as they fling themselves against the invader- but for these pilots, the consequences of capture will be even worse. For the pilots of the 599th Night Bomber Regiment are women. In the deadly skies of the Eastern front, they will become a legend- known, to friend and foe alike, as the Night Witches.



Ennis’s enthusiasm for the genre and respect for his subject matter shines through, leaving the reader with stories of 20th century warfare that are unlikely to leave them when the book is closed.