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...
Amazing stories of women and war. Amazons. Deborah. Sammu-Ramat. Artemisia. Telesilla. Cleopatra VII. Boudicca. Cartimandua. The Tru'ung Sisters. Zenobia. Brunhilde. Women Fighters of the Arab World. Wu Chao. Aethelflaed. Matilda of Tuscany. Eleanor of Aquitaine. Tamara. Isabella of France. Isabel of Fife. Joan of Arc. Margaret of Anjou. Isabella I of Spain. Caterina Sforza. Malinalli Tenepal. Chiyome. Grace O'Malley. Elizabeth I. Jinga Mbandi. Catalina de Erauso. Lady Mary Bankes. Warrior Women of Dahomey. Hannah Snell. Catherine II. Molly Pitcher. Deborah Sampson. Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt. Nadezhda Durova. Cheng I Sao. 'La Saragossa'. Rani Lakshmibai. Tz'u-Hsi. Elisa Lynch. Harriet Ross Tubman. Anna Etheridge. Louise Michel. Soldaderas. Flora Sandes. Mariya Bochkareva. Marthe Richard. Dorothy Lawrence. Constance Markiewicz. Sabiha Gökçen. Women of the Long March. Dolores Ibárruri Gómez. Lilya Litvak. Red Army Women Soldiers. Britain's Mixed Anti-Aircraft Batteries. Women of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Vera Atkins. Pearl Witherington. Christine Granville. Andrée de Jongh. Virginia Hall. Maria Gulovich. Hanna Reitsch. Ruth Werner. Olga Chekhova. Susan Travers. Jacqueline Cochran. Lillian Kinkela Keil. Haydée Santamaria. Golda Meir. Jeanne Holm. Margaret Thatcher. Women in the US Military Since 1941. Martha McSally. 'Tammy' Duckworth.
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