women warriors
Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Kathryn Atwood
Kathryn J. Attwood has written multiple young adult collective biographies on women and war for the Chicago Review Press, and edited Code Name Pauline, the memoirs of WWII SOE agent Pearl Witherington. Her first book, Women Heroes of World War II, gets all the attention, but her fifth, Courageous Women of the Vietnam War, was…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Shelley Puhak
Shelley Puhak is the author of the newly-released The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World, a dual biography of the early medieval queens Brunhild and Fredegund. Shelley is also a former literature and creative writing professor and the author of three books of poetry, the most recent of which is Harbinger, a…
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Treasures in the Paper Pile,Pt 2:Joanna of Flanders, also known as Jeanne la Flamme
In recent weeks I’ve been working my way through some of the paper stashes that have accumulated in the corners of my office in anticipation of the arrival of a new desk which will give me room for two computer screens. In the course of sorting, I’ve run across a couple of women warriors I…
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