I really enjoy the heroines Kate Quinn uses as the inspiration for her novels, but I've really felt both this and the Rose Code could have done with a significant editing. I appreciate she is trying to be thorough and genuinely bringing these women to an audience who may never of heard of them but it made the first three quarters of the book a real slog - and I enjoy military history!! As ever though, the ending snapped along so quickly - Mila and Eleanor Roosevelt's friendship twinned with the fictional side of the story really worked and tied up nicely.