During the Persian Gulf War of 1991, Americans back home held television-spawned images of military women (there were 37,000 of them) garbed in camouflage uniforms and steel helmets and thought that these women had actually been engaged in frontline combat instead of in support roles in which they performed admirably and with courage. Even before ...
Damn' Rebel Bitches takes a totally fresh approach to the history of the Jacobite Rising by telling fascinating stories of the many women caught up in the turbulent events of 1745-46. Many historians have ignored female participation in the '45: this book aims to redress the balance. Drawn from many original documents and letters, the stories that ...
An engaging and surprising collection focusing on the women in war throughout history, this volume introduces women who have taken action and who challenge our preconceived notions of womanhood.
This is the first book to describe and analyze the experience of women of African civil wars. A mixture of reportage, testimony and scholarship, the book includes contributions from women in Chad, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa and Sudan. The political context of these conflicts is outlined in an introduction to each chapter. ...
This study is about the Indian Mutiny of 1857, told mainly from the women`s point of view. It is a narrative history of the various sieges, massacres, "triumphs" and debacles of the mutiny based on these passive eye-witness accounts, dealing not so much with the military action as with the immediate consequences of it on the women involved. The ...
From September 1941 until January 1944, the city of Leningrad suffered under one of the worst sieges in the history of warfare. At least one million civilians died, many during the first terribly cold winter. Bearing the brunt of this hardship - and keeping the city alive through their daily toil and sacrifice - were the women of Leningrad. ...
Popular memory of World War II was the dominant factor contributing to a sense of national identity in the Falklands War of 1982 and the Gulf War of 1991. This text looks at public and private ideas of national identity, how they were arrived at and the extent to which they were shaped by gender. It provides a synthesis between the key concepts of ...
Continues the saga of the ill-fated Forrester family. Twin sisters Eve and Lottie face poverty, danger, passion and heartbreak in the tumultuous years leading up to World War I.
The year is 1916. Inspired by the story of Edith Cavell, twins Floss and Doss decide it is time for them to do their bit for the war effort. Their brother and father are already away at war - and the girls get jobs at a local munitions factory. From there, Floss soon moves on to work at the hospital, and eventually goes overseas to work at a Field ...
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