Garth Ennis Battlefields Night Witches #1 (Of 3)

(W) Garth Ennis (A) Russell Braun (CA) John Cassaday, Garry Leach. by Garth Ennis & Russ Braun 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 the German lines* risking fiery death as they fling themselves against the invaders 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* amidst the carnage of the Great Patriotic War* they will become a legend known* to friend and foe alike* as the Night Witches.