In Stock
Forgotten warriors
Paperback
€14.50
Collect 43 Reward Points
- Free Delivery on
- Book Synopsis
- From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Tracing the long history of female fighters, 'Forgotten Warriors' puts the record straight, exploring how war became an all-male space, and getting to the bottom of why women were allowed to be astronauts a full thirty years before they were allowed to fight in combat. 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
- About The Author
- Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Dr SARAH PERCY 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 first book, Mercenaries, examined another unconventional military history, over multiple locations, from the medieval period until the present day. This is her second.
- Product Details
-
- ISBN
- 9781529344332
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- John Murray, (14 March 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 416
- Weight
- 300 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 196 x 128 x 30 mm
- Categories: