{"product_id":"forgotten-warriors-a-history-of-women-on-the-front-line","title":"Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women On The Front Line","description":"\u003cb\u003e'Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned' \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\n  \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\n  'Vivid and extraordinary' \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n \nFrom 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. \n\u003ci\u003e\n\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eForgotten Warriors \u003c\/i\u003eshines 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. \n   \n\u003cb\u003e  'Vulnerability, strength and defiance . . . in exploring the history of women in combat, F\u003ci\u003eorgotten Warriors \u003c\/i\u003etackles their exclusion from the historical record' \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year \n   \n  'Fascinating' \u003ci\u003eBBC History\u003c\/i\u003e \n   \n  'Magnificent . . . could not be more timely' \u003ci\u003eThe Monthly \u003c\/i\u003e\n  \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\n  'Truly impressive and rigorously researched, this book should be in all libraries'\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44791537959091,"sku":"9781529344332","price":559.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478212789781529344332.jpg?v=1762860520","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/forgotten-warriors-a-history-of-women-on-the-front-line","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}