From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Tracing the long history of female fighters, ‘Forgotten Warriors’ puts the record straight, exploring how war became an all-male space, and getting to the bottom of why women were allowed to be astronauts a full thirty years before they were allowed to fight in combat. From the Mino, the all-female army that protected Dahomey from the West for two hundred years to the Night Witches, Soviet flying aces that decimated the Nazis; from the real story of Joan of Arc to the cross-dressing soldiers whose disguises were so effective the men around them never realized who they were fighting with, Sarah Percy shines a fascinating new light on the history of warfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Author Sarah Percy Published by John Murray ISBN 9781529344332 EAN 9781529344332 Bic Code NHW|NHWR7 Cover Paperback<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":64180,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[6231],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64181","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-history","8":"first","9":"onbackorder","10":"taxable","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n