About Katusha
Story and art by Wayne Vansant
This is a story of courage, survival and family; of self-sacrifice, betrayal, brutality, and suffering; it is a tale of love, told against the backdrop of the bloodiest conflict in human history: the 1941-1945 war between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
Seen through the eyes of a 16-year-old Ukrainian girl, KATUSHA is not only a coming-of-age story, but a carefully researched account of one of the most turbulent and important periods of the twentieth century.
The story opens with Katusha’s graduation from her tenth and final year of school. The next morning, Sunday June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union. The girl and her family flee to the forests to begin a partisan war against the German occupiers. Finally, Katusha enters the Red Army where she is trained as a tank driver. Her unit fights in the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, and then pushes the Germans across Ukraine into Poland. By 1945, Katusha commands her own tank, and takes part in the final battle for Berlin.
In KATUSHA BOOK ONE: EDGE OF DARKNESS, the story opens with Katusha’s graduation from her tenth and final year of school. The next morning, Sunday June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union. The girl and her family flee to the forests to begin a partisan war against the German occupiers.
In KATUSHA BOOK TWO: THE SHAKING OF THE EARTH Katusha, and her adopted sister Milla join the Red Army and are sent to tank school. Trained to operate the mighty T-34, Katusha fights from countryside to cities, but as in any way there is always a steep price to for victory, and Katusha must deal with her own devastating personal loss.
KATUSHA BOOK THREE: ON WINGS OF THUNDER is expected in 2015, and will carry the heroine to the Brandenburg Gates and the Reichstag and the end of the terrible war.
Credits and Copyright information:
Wayne Vansant – story and art
Susan Barrows – Copy Editor and Computer Support
Fabrice Sapolsky – Additional design
David Bernstein – Publisher
For foreign rights information please contact David Bernstein : granddesignagent@gmail.com.
KATUSHA © 2015 Wayne Vansant. All rights reserved.
KATUSHA (including all prominent characters featured herein), its logo and all character likenesses are trademarks of Wayne Vansant, unless otherwise noted.
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Very good series. Looking forward to Book 3.
Purchased and read Books 1&2. Waiting patiently for Book 3 ! Any idea when it will be released ??
Thanks for supporting Katusha! Right now we are talking to publishers about doing mass market editions of Book Three along with the first two. We may also do a small-press run in the Spring in the same format as the first two volumes. Check our Facebook and Twitter for announcements!
Any news on book 3 or a compiled volume of all three?