{"product_id":"forgotten-warriors-sarah-percy-9781529344332","title":"Forgotten Warriors","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned' Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  'Vivid and extraordinary' Wall Street Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising 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 realized who they were fighting with. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForgotten Warriors shines a light on women in war, from the Mino,the all-female army the 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  '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 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  'Fascinating' BBC History \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  'Magnificent . . . could not be more timely' The Monthly \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e  'Truly impressive and rigorously researched, this book should be in all libraries' New York Journal of Books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarah Percy","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46843052392691,"sku":"9781529344332","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781529344332.jpg?v=1743102345","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/forgotten-warriors-sarah-percy-9781529344332","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}