Battlefields. Volume 1 The Night Witches - Garth Ennis

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

Based on the true story of Russia's women warriors, this hard-hitting taleby Garth Ennis (The Boys) and Russ Braun (Jack of Fables) pulls no punches inits depiction of warfare on the savage Eastern Front. When Communist and Naziarmies meet head on, innocence dies fast - and even the survivors will bescarred in ways they could never have imagined.