# Forgotten Warriors

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- Book: [Forgotten Warriors](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-percy/forgotten-warriors) ([Forgotten Warriors.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-percy/forgotten-warriors.md))
- Authors: [Sarah Percy](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-percy)
- Publisher: john_murray
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-2934-434-9
- Published: 2023-06-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned' Times Literary Supplement 'Vivid and extraordinary' Wall Street Journal From 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. Forgotten 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. '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 'Fascinating' BBC History 'Magnificent . . . could not be more timely' The Monthly 'Truly impressive and rigorously researched, this book should be in all libraries' New York Journal of Books