Stalin’s Falcons
A novel in progress
Stalin’s Falcons tells the deeply personal journey of Soviet pilots at war on the Eastern Front. It interweaves the stories of three women — a female fighter ace, a shturmovik pilot who survived a POW camp, and a “night witch” navigator with more than 800 combat missions — and one man, the commander of a mostly female dive-bomber regiment.
From Stalingrad to Berlin, from the inferno of the Caucasus to a POW camp in Poland, these aviators experienced the extremes of wartime life.
Not all survived.
Based on the actual experiences of women and men who flew in combat for the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War.