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It's my country too : women's military stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan / edited by Jerri Bell & Tracy Crow ; foreword by Kayla Williams.
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English
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Lincoln, NB : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
Description
xxi, 330 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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UB418.W65 B448 2017
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Women and the military
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United States
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Women soldiers
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United States
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Biography
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United States
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Armed Forces
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Women
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Editor
Bell, Jerri
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Crow, Tracy
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Writer of foreword
Williams, Kayla
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Personal narratives
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Summary note
This inspiring anthology is the first to convey the noteworthy experiences and contributions of women in the American military in their own words-from the Revolutionary War to the present wars in the Middle East. Serving with the Union Army during the Civil War as a nurse, scout, spy, and soldier, Harriet Tubman tells what it was like to be the first American woman to lead a raid against an enemy, freeing some 750 slaves. Busting gender stereotypes, Inga Fredriksen Ferris's describes how it felt to be a woman marine during World War II. Heidi Squier Kraft recounts her experiences as a lieutenant commander in the navy, deployed to Iraq as a psychologist to provide mental health care in a combat zone. In excerpts from their diaries, letters, oral histories, military depositions and testimonies, as well as from published and unpublished memoirs, generations of women reveal why and how they chose to serve their country, often breaking with social norms and at great personal peril.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-330).
Contents
The American Revolution
The Civil War
The Spanish-American war
World War I
World War II
Unconventional operations, espionage, and the Cold War
Women's integration and the Korean War
The Vietnam War
Gender wars
Desert Storm
Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi freedom.
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Women's military stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan
ISBN
9781612348315 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1612348319 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9781640122321 ((pbk. : alk. paper))
164012232X
LCCN
2016054040
OCLC
962232942
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