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A review by emilycc
Battlefields, Volume 1: Night Witches by Garth Ennis, Russell Braun
3.0
Good but not great. The best part of this is the incredible true history it covers of the women who flew planes for the Soviet Union during WWII. Unsurprisingly, they were treated like second-class citizens by their own army and faced especially horrifying fates if they were captured by the German Army. The actual story is pretty featherweight and relies pretty heavily on tired tropes (one of the Night Witches is sleeping with her commanding officer! He hates them at first but comes to respect them!)
The illustrations are also good but not great, but they do really capture what the Night Witches faced - the violence, the old, rickety planes (that contrast sharply with the newer machines flown by their male counterparts), etc.
Violent and grim, but fascinating when it focuses on the history.
The illustrations are also good but not great, but they do really capture what the Night Witches faced - the violence, the old, rickety planes (that contrast sharply with the newer machines flown by their male counterparts), etc.
Violent and grim, but fascinating when it focuses on the history.