Book description
From earliest times, women gained access to leadership in times of
conflict and proved themselves equal to the challenge of commanding
during war. Women leaders abounded in the ancient world from Ireland to
Israel, sometimes through the accident of birth, but often rising to
power through naked opportunism and raw courage in the ranks - and it is
no accident that women war leaders, like men, are often famous for their
strong sexual drive. Wherever there is war, there has often been a woman
at the helm. Later ages frequently wrote these women out of history, but
their stories have refused to die. From the legendary leader of the
Amazons who fought the greatest of Greek heroes, Achilles, to the Iron
Ladies of today, the women of both West and East directing military
campaigns and leading their countries in war. Presenting an array of
fascinating and sometimes little known women war leaders, popular author
Rosalind Miles and the acclaimed military historian Robin Cross do full
justice to the achievements of these women, some of whose amazing
stories have so far never been told. Warrior women include: Penthesilea
the Amazons queen, Deborah, Cleopatra VII, Boudicca, Eleanor of
Aquitaine, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, Grace O'Malley, Deborah Samson,
Nadezda Durova, Harriet Tubman, Anna Etheridge, Soldaderas, Flora
Sandes, Lily Litvak, Women of the Warsaw Ghetto, Hanna Reitsch, Ruth
Werner, Jeanne Holm, Margaret Thatcher, Women in Today's Armies, Martha
McSally and more... From earliest times, women gained access to
leadership in times of conflict and proved themselves equal to the
challenge of commanding during war. Women leaders abounded in the
ancient world from Ireland to Israel, sometimes through the accident of
birth, but often rising to power through naked opportunism and raw
courage in the ranks - and it is no accident that women war leaders,
like men, are often famous for their strong sexual drive. Wherever there
is war, there has often been a woman at the helm. Later ages frequently
wrote these women out of history, but their stories have refused to die.
From the legendary leader of the Amazons who fought the greatest of
Greek heroes, Achilles, to the Iron Ladies of today, the women of both
West and East directing military campaigns and leading their countries
in war. Presenting an array of fascinating and sometimes little known
women war leaders, popular author Rosalind Miles and the acclaimed
military historian Robin Cross do full justice to the achievements of
these women, some of whose amazing stories have so far never been told.
Warrior women include: Penthesilea the Amazons queen, Deborah, Cleopatra
VII, Boudicca, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, Grace
O'Malley, Deborah Samson, Nadezda Durova, Harriet Tubman, Anna
Etheridge, Soldaderas, Flora Sandes, Lily Litvak, Women of the Warsaw
Ghetto, Hanna Reitsch, Ruth Werner, Jeanne Holm, Margaret Thatcher,
Women in Today's Armies, Martha McSally and more...
