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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
126 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"YOU are Mary Bowser, a spy in Virginia. Freed from slavery, you have teamed up with Elizabeth "Bet" Van Lew to form a spy ring of powerful, brave women. You are as quick with your weapon as you are with your mind, and you work secret messages and poisons into everyday objects. Hidden in plain sight, you and your ring change the outcome of the Civil War"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
370 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In World War I, telephones linked commanding generals with soldiers in muddy trenches. A woman in uniform connected almost every one of their calls, speeding the orders that won the war. Like other soldiers, the "Hello Girls" swore the Army oath and stayed for the duration. A few were graduates of elite colleges. Most were ordinary, enterprising young women motivated by patriotism and adventure, eager to test their mettle and save the world. The...
Author
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1941, as Nazi hordes swept east into the Soviet Union, a desperte call went out for women to join the Russian air force. The result--three entire regiments of women pilots and bombers--was a phenomenon unmatched in World II. Through interviews with these courageous pilots, the author uncovers their story. Soon to be a major motion picture"--Back cover.
89) Lioness
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
U.S. policy forbids women from serving in military units whose primary objective is direct ground combat. This documentary makes public, for the first time, the hidden history of a group of female Army support soldiers who became the first women in American history to be sent into direct ground combat, fighting alongside their male comrades in some of the most violent counterinsurgency battles. Told through intimate accounts and interviews with military...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses how in the 1940s, women broke free from traditional gender roles by piloting aircraft both on the homefront and in combat, making critical contributions to the Allied victory in World War II.
Series
Profiles of World War II Heroes volume 2
Pub. Date
[201-?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color with some black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 742 pages, 72 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, : 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book offers the first full account of Harriet Tubman's Civil War service and the Combahee River Raid. It details how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines. It also recounts the story of enslaved families living in bondage and fighting for their freedom, using their own distinct and individual voices. The book uses more than 175 US Civil War pension files of the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring graphic novel about Jane Kendeigh, a nurse who helped wounded soldiers in combat zones during World War II. During World War II, the United States' fight against the Japanese on islands in the Pacific was intense and deadly. To help respond to casualties in battle, the U.S. Navy trained 122 nurses to aid wounded soldiers in combat zones. The first nurse to do so was Jane Kendeigh, a twenty-two-year-old woman from Ohio. In March 1945,...
99) WASPs
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) were American women who wanted to serve as members of the Army Air Force during World War II. Although there was resistance from some people who thought women couldn't be military pilots, eventually women were allowed to serve as pilots.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
355 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Plucked from every background and led by an NKVD major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on October 16, 1941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the members of the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th Heavy-Bomber Regiment, and the 588th Regiment of Light Night-Bombers unique was their gender: the Soviet Union was creating the first all-female active combat units in modern history. Drawing...
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