{"product_id":"forgotten-warriors-a-history-of-women-on-the-front-line","title":"Forgotten Warriors : A History of Women on the Front Line","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Percy, Sarah \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 22\/06\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 416 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529344318,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Mino, the all-female army that protected Dahomey from the West for two hundred years to the Night Witches, Soviet flying aces that decimated the Nazis; from the real story of Joan of Arc to the cross-dressing soldiers whose disguises were so effective the men around them never realized who they were fighting with, Sarah Percy shines a fascinating new light on the history of warfare. And against a backdrop of sieges and desperate battles, rebellions and civil wars, a series of extraordinary women come alive on the page, determined not to be passive victims.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery country has their tomb to the unknown warrior, picking out one unnamed body to represent the sacrifices of thousands of others. As Forgotten Warriors shows, those overlooked soldiers could well be female. Their heroic and compelling stories need to be heard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43104787398700,"sku":"9781529344318","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529344318.jpg?v=1713014898","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/forgotten-warriors-a-history-of-women-on-the-front-line","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}