'Night Witches' is a history of Soviet women's fighter and bomber units in World War II. It is based on extensive interviews with the survivors. Myles has worked these interviews into a remarkably entertaining and informative read that is marred only by what the text is lacking: maps, more details about their planes and the planes of their enemies and other Soviet units, more detail about how the Soviets used these planes in conjunction with other units and an over-arching historical narrative to place these women in their historical context.

My copy was published in 1990 and I was disappointed to find that it literally fell apart as I was reading it - the binding was very fragile and the pages fell out individually and in chunks.