Forgotten Warriors

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‘Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Vivid and extraordinary’ Wall Street Journal From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surpris ing number of female fighters. We have all heard of Joan of Arc, but not the cross-dressing soldiers whose disguises were so effective the men around them never realised who they were fighting with. Forgotten Warriors shines a light on women in war, 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. Against a backdrop of sieges and desperate battles, rebellions and civil wars, Sarah Percy brings these extraordinary women to life, and sets the record straight. ‘Vulnerability, strength and defiance... in exploring the history of women in combat, Forgotten Warriors tackles their exclusion from the historical record’ The Spectator, Books of the Year ‘Fascinating’ BBC History ‘Magnificent... could not be more timely’ The Monthly ‘Truly impressive and rigorously researched, this book should be in all libraries’ New York Journal of Books Show more