"In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in wartime. An award-winning war correspondent for twenty-five years (she's never had a female editor) Lamb reports two wars--the "bang-bang" war and the story of how the people behind the lines live and survive. At the same time, since men usually act as the fighters, women are rarely interviewed about their experience of...

"Who says women don't go to war? From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor. * The woman warrior is always cast as an anomaly--Joan of Arc, not GI Jane. But women, it turns out, have always gone to war. In this fascinating and lively world history, Pamela Toler not only introduces us to women who took up arms, she also shows why...

In 1940 set in London the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second world war.

"In October 2018, Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson announced that all roles in the military would now be open to women. Although this marks a historic shift, officially allowing British women into combat roles, the presence of women on the front lines dates back to antiquity. Beginning with the founding myth of the Amazons--in reality female warriors of a nomadic tribe to whom the Greeks attributed super-heroic powers--Julie Wheelwright explores...

Women have been on the front lines of the war for more than a century. With access to places men cannot go, the women who photograph war lend a unique perspective to the consequences of conflict. From intimate glimpses of daily life to the atrocities of war, this exhibition catalogue reveals the range and depth of eight women photographers' contributions to wartime photojournalism. Each photographer is introduced by a brief, informative essay, followed...

"The indomitable Kopp sisters are tested at home and aboard in this warm and witty tale of wartime courage and camaraderie"-- The U.S. has finally entered World War I. Constance Kopp is chasing down suspected German saboteurs and spies for the Bureau of Investigation while Fleurette is traveling across the country entertaining troops with song and dance. Meanwhile, at an undisclosed location in France, Norma is overseeing her thwarted pigeon project...

Cuatro mujeres chilenas se reúnen a orillas de un lago, donde aparecen las intensas y diversas historias personales de cada una. Todas ellas fueron marcadas de una u otra manera por la eperiencia socialista de Allende y el golpe militar de 1973, pero tambien por el amor, el dolor, el desangaño y la compasión. Four Chilean women gather at the edges of a lake where the intense and diverse personal histories of each one appear. They were all marked...

"In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. On August 15th, 2014, when Nadia was just twenty-one years...

In the summer of 2014, in northern Iraq, more than one hundred thousand Yezidis were besieged on Sinjar Mountain alone, by ISIS forces. Otten, a journalist based in Iraqi Kurdistan for the past four years, covers the massacres of Yezidi men and the mass abduction of Yezidi women and children with extraordinary intensity. Today, over 3,000 Yezidi women and girls remain in the Caliphate where they are bought and sold, and passed between fighters as...