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Forgotten Warriors
A History of Women on the Front Line
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‘Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Vivid and extraordinary’ Wall Street Journal From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of female fighters. We have all heard of Joan of Arc, but not the cross-dressing soldiers whose disguises were so effective the...
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From the Amazons to the Ukraine conflict, women have always been on the front line of war: this is their surprising and heroic history.
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‘Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned’ Times Literary Supplement
‘Vivid and extraordinary’ Wall Street Journal
From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of female fighters. We have all heard of Joan of Arc, but not the cross-dressing soldiers whose disguises were so effective the men around them never realised who they were fighting with.
Forgotten Warriors shines a light on women in war, from the Mino, the all-female army that protected Dahomey from the West for two hundred years, to the Night Witches, Soviet flying aces that decimated the Nazis. Against a backdrop of sieges and desperate battles, rebellions and civil wars, Sarah Percy brings these extraordinary women to life, and sets the record straight.
‘Vulnerability, strength and defiance... in exploring the history of women in combat, Forgotten Warriors tackles their exclusion from the historical record’ The Spectator, Books of the Year ‘Fascinating’ BBC History ‘Magnificent... could not be more timely’ The Monthly ‘Truly impressive and rigorously researched, this book should be in all libraries’ New York Journal of BooksBook Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529344332
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 March 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 416
About the Author
Sarah Percy is Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. She was formerly Fellow in International Relations at Merton College, Oxford, where she was on the steering committee of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War. Author and presenter of an acclaimed ABC radio series on the Cold War, her acclaimed previous book, Mercenaries, examined another unconventional military history, over multiple locations, from the medieval period until the present day. This is her first trade book.
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