Forgotten Warriors. A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy

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Title: Forgotten Warriors. A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy. 
Summary: The assumption that the frontline of war is exclusively male and that fighting is unfeminine is a Victorian stereotype that has stuck. But as this startling new history shows, women have always been on battlefields, some fighting disguised as men (a marvellous example of this is Casimir Pulaski, the famous Polish general only discovered to have been female once exhumed), others mobilized in times of national survival (Stalin had a deadly all-female bomber division in WWII that the Germans called the Night Witches), and many others serving essential non-combat functions on the front (one in nine in the Duke of Wellington's army in 1813 were female). Rip-roaring tales of derring-do and heroism pulse with an awareness of the endemic sexism that has suppressed their stories till now. For once the conflicts were over, these women were forced back into their previous lives, their achievements whitewashed from the record. 
In this book brilliant historian Sarah Percy tells the fascinating and surprising stories of these women, often for the first time. In World War II, British women worked in all-female anti-aircraft batteries. British women were allowed to fight and kill, but only covertly, as members of the Special Operations Executive.
Author: Sarah Percy. 
Publisher: John Murray. London
Year Published: 2023
Edition: Uncorrected Proof
Dimensions: 23cm x 15cm 
Binding type: Softcover
ISBN: 9781529344325
Notes: This is an uncorrected proof printed prior to the book being published. As such this makes the book quite scarce and collectable
SKU: VSS / 251 / G / 7322 / 5613
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Book condition: Very good. Handling marks, marks
Binding: Intact
Pages: 392 pages
 
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