![]() ![]() At one point, Mila meets a teenage girl who was raped by a group of Nazi soldiers. The focus is mainly on Mila’s evolution as a soldier and on her bonds with her fellow soldiers, rather than on wartime gore, but the devastation of war is not glossed over. While she is initially underestimated for being a small female, she earns the respect and friendship of the men around her, becomes a leader, and even falls in love. Armed with patience, perfectionism, and calm under pressure, Mila earns the nickname Lady Death as she shoots over 300 enemy soldiers. ![]() Not wanting her son to live under a swastika, she enlists as a sniper in the Soviet army where her extensive shooting training comes in handy. ![]() It is then that she develops her motto of Don’t Miss.Ī few years later, Mila is a fourth year history student working as a researcher in an Odessa library when Hitler invades Ukraine. After a scene where Mila’s estranged husband takes their 5-year-old son without her knowledge and teaches him to shoot a rifle that the boy can barely hold, Mila resolves to learn to shoot a rifle with perfect accuracy and to be both mother and father to her son. When we first meet Mila, she is in her early twenties, raising her young son with the help of her parents. The Diamond Eye is a novel about the real life Soviet sniper, Lyudmila (Mila) Pavlichenko. ![]()
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