The sequel to 2009's The Night Witches! Lieutenant Anna Kharkova is posted to single-seat fighter aircraft & sent straight into action Hardened & embittered by the loss of her comrades Anna is only too keen to get her teeth into the enemy
- but with Russian & German armies about to collide in the titanic battle of Kursk her first flight with her new squadron may well be her last! & once the Soviet secret police start sniffing around death in battle may well be preferable anyway Soon horrific losses land Anna with the very last thing she wants more responsibility in the shape of eight young replacement pilots to be trained for combat But with the Battle of Kursk reaching its climax rookies are nothing but lambs to the slaughter
- & even the most experienced pilots find themselves flying on borrowed time The former Night Witch meets her destiny as Motherland
- & the second series of Battlefields
- conclude with a bang Collects all three issues of Motherland along with a complete cover gallery The former Night Witch meets her destiny in a fast-paced tale of aerial combat by Garth Ennis & Russ Braun with covers by Garry Leach!