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Recent articles from Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military

Band of sisters: the Amazon light cavalry.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Steven Pressfield. Last of the Amazons. New York: Doubleday, 2002. 396 pp. Map, author's notes. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-385-50098-X. I've never been an Amazon but Steven Pressfield sure made me feel like one. In Last of the Amazons he schooled me in their ways. He issued me my...

Letters home from a stateside WAC, 1944-1945.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Aileen Kilgore Henderson. Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945. Women's Diaries and Letters of the South Series. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. 252 pp. Illustrations and index. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-57003-396-X. Aileen Kilgore Henderson's...

Women spies of World War II.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Elizabeth P. McIntosh. Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998. xiv + 282 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $27.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-55750-598-5. Elizabeth McIntosh's Sisterhood of Spies details the history of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS),...

Expanding the literary canon: nurses' memoirs of World War I.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Margaret Randolph Higonnet. Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001. x + 161 pp. Notes. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-55553-485-6; $16.95 (paper), ISBN 1-55553-484-8. In recent years a number of authors have drawn attention to...

Only connect.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Nicole Ann Dombrowski, ed. Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted With or Without Consent. Women's History and Culture. New York: Garland, 1999. x + 377 pp. Photographs, notes, index. $59.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8153-2287-9. In Women and War in the Twentieth Century, editor Nicole...