In 1937 in the city of Kiev, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko’s life is sent on a different path after Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious young woman to deadly sniper - a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever. 

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