Women in War"Women in War is a shocking, unforgettable tribute to the millions of women around the world who have faced combat as nurses, soldiers, spies, saboteurs and, most recently, guerrillas. Their roles have often been controversial or unacknowledged by the very countries for which they fought so wholeheartedly. Women pilots in Britain, resistance fighters in France, Italy and Poland, Russian marines, Israeli commandos, French and American nurses in Vietnam, Salvadoran guerrillas and even an English pacifist who was the only woman to join British troops in the Falklands: they are the forgotten veterans of our time, and in Women in War their stories are finally told." -- From back cover. |
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