Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat

ISBN: 1541619862

Author: Percy, Sarah

Condition: New

The definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combatFrom Boudiccas rebellion to the war in Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Some formed all-female armies, like the Dahomey Mino of West Africa; some fought disguised as men; some mobilized in times of national survival, like the Soviet flying aces known as the Night Witches. International relations expert Sarah Percy unearths the stories of these forgotten warriors. She sets the historical record straight, revealing that womens exclusion from active combat in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is a blip in a much longer narrative of female inclusion. Deeply researched and brilliantly told, Forgotten Warriors turns the notion of war as a mans game on its head and restores women to their rightful place on the front lines of history.