The Huntress is able to create such an atmospheric read as it draws on our already strong, preconceived ideas surrounding WWII, Germany, Nazis and the post war world.

This is one of those deep, all encompassing, thoroughly engrossing historical fictions that I love.

Armed with her camera, she’s determined to discover the truth about her stepmother’s past.Īll these stories will intersect as they each have their own cause to hunt down the huntress. When Jordan’s dad remarries the newly immigrated German widow Anna, Jordan is convinced something is off about this stranger cloaked in mystery and shadows. But women in 1946 are expected to marry their high school sweethearts and take over their parent’s businesses, not travel the world as a photojournalist. Young Bostonian, Jordan McBride longs to attend University, see the world become a photographer. But one particular criminal keeps slipping his grasp, the infamous die Jagerin – the Huntress – who’s responsible for killing six children and his brother at her cabin on the cold Lake Rusalka during the war. War correspondent Ian Graham has dedicated his post-war life to hunting down Nazis and seeing them brought to justice for their war crimes. Full of gumption and fire, she runs away and does whatever it takes to be accepted into flight training, eventually joining the elite band of Night Witches who flew copious nightly bombing raids on the Germans during WWII. Nina Markova, who has survived growing up on the farthest reaches of the inhospitable, frozen edges of Soviet Russia, longs to fly.

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