Night Run

By Robert Denny

An American pilot trapped behind Russian lines winds up flying for the Soviet Air Force and becomes involved with one of the "Night Witches," a female Soviet regiment who silently glided vintage... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556113366
• ISBN13: 9781556113369
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 20.0" x 20.0" x 20.0"

Customer Reviews

night run

Well writen story about air force and Russian activities during WW2. It was a used book, in excelent condition, at a bargain price. Should be of special intrest to WW2 vets.

Well-researched, plausable, and exciting

Robert Denny, the author of "Aces" and "Night Run", was a B-17 pilot with the Eighth Air Force's 306th Bomber Group, and a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross. He knows flying and he knows airplanes -- this shows in his writing. And he knows his history on the Eastern Front. In "Night Run", he has expertly woven an exciting fictional story into real historical events, interlacing his own characters with historical personalities. Mr. Denny subtitles his book "a novel in honor of the famed Night Witches of World War ll". Although his main protagonist is an American B-17 pilot, his book really showcases the women aviators of the War. Not only the Soviet female combat regiments, but the American WASPs and even the fanatical Nazi test-pilot Hanna Reitsch. The plot-device of an American fighting in the Soviet military is not as far-fetched as it may at first seem. This actually happened on a number of occasions. (I have a memoir of American POW Joseph Beyrle who, upon his liberation by the Red Army, joined a Soviet tank unit. Coincidentally enough, his tank commander was a woman.) "Night Run" takes its protagonists from the battle of Stalingrad to the fall of Berlin. Included is a "love story", which is something I normally detest in a war novel. But this one is tastefully written and never distracting from the action as the Red Air Force storms westward. Throughout, events are chronicled with the realism of one who actually participated. In many ways, this book reminds me of Cornelius Ryan's awesome "The Last Battle". I wonder if Denny referenced it for his historical sequences?