Forgotten Warriors A History of Women on the Front Line

<p>From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Tracing the long history of female fighters, <i>Forgotten Warriors</i> 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.<br><br>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 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.<br><br>Every country has their tomb to the unknown w