Blogger James Robert Smith has a review of KATUSHA BOOK ONE and KATUSHA BOOK TWO up on his blog, Til The Last Hemlock Dies. Smith, an accomplished novelist and comic book writer, wrote:
These books follow the title character, a female soldier in the Red Army of the Soviet Union. The reader sees her as young teenager before the outbreak of the war, to her days as a Ukraine partisan, and then as a Red Army sergeant in a tank unit. Vansant uses his vast talent as an artist/writer to take us into the girl’s life within her family and as a soldier in the various units with whom she struggles against the Nazis. Vansant’s vast knowledge of World War II and all of its facets are in full display as this very complicated story unfolds. We see the contradictions of the society of Europe and of its peoples spelled out wonderfully in his gorgeous artwork and in his careful and objective prose. It’s an absolutely amazing display of storytelling. In addition, the author is point-perfect in the way he illustrates the hardware of warfare within the theater of eastern Europe at that time, and of the tactics always at work by both the Germans and the Soviets.
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