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Yashka: My Life as a Peasant Exile and Soldier; A Biography and History of Russia in WW1 and the Bolshevik Revolution (Hardcover)

Yashka is the autobiography of Maria Botchkareva a young Russian woman who bravely took up arms first against the Germans in World War One and then opposed the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Maria describes a hard upbringing as a... more

Yashka: My Life as a Peasant Exile and Soldier; A Biography and History of Russia in WW1 and the Bolshevik Revolution (Paperback)

Yashka is the autobiography of Maria Botchkareva a young Russian woman who bravely took up arms first against the Germans in World War One and then opposed the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Maria describes a hard upbringing as a... more

Amazing Women of the Civil War: Fascinating True Stories of Women Who Made a Difference (Paperback)

The Civil War is most often described as one in which brother fought against brother. But the most devastating war fought on American soil was also one in which women demonstrated heroic deeds selfless acts and courage beyond measure. Women... more

Close-Up on War : The Story of Pioneering Photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam (Hardcover)

Close-Up on War: The Story of Pioneering Photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam The incredible story of Catherine Leroy one of the few woman photographers during the Vietnam War told by an award-winning journalist and children’s author From... more

Lance Armstrong s War : One Man s Battle Against Fate Fame Love Death Scandal and a Few Other Rivals on the Road to the Tour de France 9780061783715 Used / Pre-owned

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Working for Peace and Justice : Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual (Edition 1) (Paperback)

9781572338579. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 288. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Legacies of War. A longtime agitator against war and social injustice Lawrence Wittner... more

Life s Letter: One woman s journey retracing the steps of her grandmother s love letters 67 years later. (Paperback)

A transatlantic love story revealed through 110 long-lost love letters from 1946 piques a granddaughter s curiosity into her lineage. The letters penned from her British war bride grandmother to her Canadian soldier grandfather inspires Carly to... more

Pre-Owned America s Joan of Arc : The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson 9780195161458

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson was one of nineteenth century America s most celebrated women. A charismatic orator author and actress she rose to fame during the Civil War and remained in the public eye for the next three decades. The first biography of... more

Phantom Warrior : The Heroic True Story of Pvt. John McKinney s One-Man Stand Against the Japanese in World War II 9780425215661 Used / Pre-owned

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Outrunning Fear: One woman s account of a childhood in the shadow of a brutal Ugandan warzone (Hardcover)

Pulled from her bed in the middle of the night to run for her life from the soldiers of the Lord s Resistance Army Christine s childhood in war torn Uganda was one of sharp contrasts - the fear and terror of war countered by the kindness and care of... more

Pre-Owned Two Wars : One Hero s Fight on Two Fronts--Abroad and Within 9781414320090

Army Ranger hero Self recounts the Roberts Ridge Rescue mission the ferocious battles in Afghanistan and the lone war of attrition that he has waged against post-traumatic stress disorder to show how his family and his faith pulled him through.... more

Pre-Owned When Heaven and Earth Changed Places : A Vietnamese Woman s Journey from War to Peace 9780385247580

One of the most important books of Vietnamese American and Vietnam War literature...Moving powerful. --Viet Thanh Nguyen Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer In these pages Le Ly Hayslip--just twelve years old when U.S. helicopters... more

Pre-Owned The Lonely War : One Woman s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran 9780465069996

In the summer of 2009 as she was covering the popular uprisings in Tehran for the New York Times Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi received a phone call. They have given your photo to snipers a government source warned her. Soon after with undercover... more

Pre-Owned Bella Abzug : How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe Mccarthy Pissed off Jimmy Carter Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers Rallied Against 9780374299521

For more than 50 years Bella Abzug championed the powerless and disenfranchised. Presented in the voices of those who knew fought with revered and struggled alongside her this oral biography is the first comprehensive account of a woman who was one... more

Fractured Lives (Paperback)

Fractured Lives is a memoir of one woman s experiences as a documentary filmmaker covering the wars in southern Africa during the 1980s and 1990s. Part autobiography part history part social commentary and part war story it offers a female... more

Pre-Owned One Woman Against the Reich Paperback

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Once Upon a Green Meadow : An American Family s Struggles Between the Wars (Hardcover)

This poignant memoir shares one woman s memories growing up between the two world wars as a member of the McMillan family a hardworking bunch who made their living on an eastern Washington farm. In a series of vignettes Ernestine McMillan Hilton... more

Dr. Mary Walker s Civil War : One Woman s Journey to the Medal of Honor and the Fight for Women s Rights (Hardcover)

“History has long neglected the inspiring and incredible tale of Dr. Mary Walker a pioneering Civil War surgeon who overcame rampant prejudice to save countless soldiers’ lives. In Dr. Mary Walker’s Civil War Theresa Kaminski has finally given... more

On the Cancer Frontier : One Man One Disease and a Medical Revolution (Hardcover)

In 1950 a diagnosis of cancer was all but a death sentence. Mortality rates only got worse and as late as 1986 an article in the New England Journal of Medicine lamented: We are losing the war against cancer. Cancer is one of humankind s oldest and... more

Pre-Owned The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback) 0195066707 9780195066708

Not only one of the last of over one hundred slave narratives published separately before the Civil War Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is also one of the few existing narratives written by a woman. It offers a unique perspective on the... more

Pre-Owned Women Pilots of World War II 9780874804935

A look at the personal experiences of the Woman Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs) recounting the adventures of one of eighteen classes of women to graduate from the Army Air Forces flight training school during World War II. CONDITION – USED: Books... more

The War That Saved My Life (Paperback)

2016 Newbery Honor book *Winner of the 2016 Schneider Family Book Award This #1 New York Times bestseller is an exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War II. For fans of Counting by 7s and Sarah Plain and Tall.... more

Pre-Owned Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War (Hardcover) 0805093230 9780805093230

Hailed as a virtuosic one-woman show ( Time Out New York ) this New York Times Book Review Editor s Choice pick tells the funny and poignant story of the year the author ran away from college with her idealistic boyfriend and followed him to... more

Song of Saigon: One Woman s Journey to Freedom (Hardcover - Used) 0446529087 9780446529082

In the spring of 1975 as war spread across South Vietnam and her country stood on the brink of collapse Anh Vu a young medical student faced the most terrifying ordeal of her life. Her only hope was to pray for the seemingly impossible: escape. Here... more

Pre-Owned Looking for Trouble: One Woman Six Wars and a Revolution (Paperback) 0385483554 9780385483551

Leslie Cockburn has dined with the Cali Cartel marched with the Khmer Rouge hunted down the Black Turban in Afghanistan pursued the Russian mafia to the Arctic Circle shared pomegranate sauce with the ayatollahs and stopped a small Kurdish war but... more

Florence Nightingale (Paperback)

The Lady with the Lamp . One of the most famous women of the 19th Century Florence Nightingale s story is one of courage and charity. Born into a rich and influential family in Florence she trained 38 women to be nurses in the Crimean War and helped... more

Pre-Owned Vice Cop: My Twenty-Year Battle with New York s Dark Side (Hardcover) 0688084516 9780688084516

The most explosive expose of life on the police force since Serpico this authentic intensely personal story of one man s war against crime--amidst the grittiness and glamour against the corruption and the temptation--is an insider s portrait of life... more

Pre-Owned The Secrets of the Notebook: A Woman s Quest to Uncover Her Royal Family Secret (Paperback) 1628725257 9781628725254

A New York Times bestseller the true story of a girl who learns she s descended from a princess told with the suspense of a Cold War thriller. The beautiful owner of this book is dearer to me than my life - August your protector. This one sentence... more

Brass and Unity: One Woman s Journey Through the Hell of Afghanistan and Back (Hardcover)

As heard on the Jocko Podcast Episode 381 This is the story of a woman who witnessed the worst in the War in Afghanistan was confronted by demons of post-traumatic stress and fought for her life to become stronger than ever. Fresh out of high school... more

Pre-Owned The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover) by Denise Kiernan

Oak Ridge Tennessee was created from scratch 1942. One of the Manhattan Project s secret cities it didn t appear on maps until 1949. Yet at the height of World War II it was home to more than 75 000 people many of them young women recruited from... more

Pre-Owned The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of One of Britain s Bravest Wartime Heroines (Paperback) 1447201183 9781447201182

The Untold Story of Britain s First Female Special Agent of World War II In June 1952 a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was... more

Pre-Owned A Southern Woman s Story: Life in Confederate Richmond (Hardcover - Used) 0916107272 9780916107277

Published in 1879 this is the author s description of life as a woman in the southern states during the Civil War. Includes clothing hospitals relationships lost loved ones and more. more

Pre-Owned The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters One Remarkable Family and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (Paperback) 184854555X 9781848545557

The New York Times bestseller written by a former reporter for ABC News that People magazine called a transporting enlightening book tells the story of a fearless young entrepreneur who brought hope to the lives of dozens of women in war-torn... more

Pre-Owned The Color of Grace: How One Womans Brokenness Brought Healing and Hope to Child Survivors War Hardcover Bethany Haley Williams

Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining acceptable on books as long as the text is readable and... more

Rise. Risk. Remember. Incredible Stories of Courageous Black Women: Susie King Taylor : Nurse Teacher & Freedom Fighter (Paperback)

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Never Caught and She Came to Slay comes a vibrant middle grade biography of Susie King Taylor one of the first Black Civil War nurses in a new series spotlighting Black women who left their... more

Pre-Owned Mary Queen Of Scots (Paperback 9781474610919) by Antonia Fraser

9781474610919. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Mass-market paperback. Language: English. B-format paperback. Contains: Unspecified. Women in History. Includes unspecified. Ground-breaking ... One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war... more

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Paperback)

One of the most important slave narratives of all time The Narrative of Sojourner Truth tells the story of one African American woman who struggles against the bondages of slavery in the mid-1800s. With the strength of her spirituality Truth... more

Pre-Owned Two Wars: One Heros Fight on Fronts-Abroad and Within Hardcover Nate Self

Army Ranger hero Self recounts the Roberts Ridge Rescue mission the ferocious battles in Afghanistan and the lone war of attrition that he has waged against post-traumatic stress disorder to show how his family and his faith pulled him through.... more