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The Women s Land Army in First World War Britain (Paperback)

Between 1917 and 1919 women enlisted in the Women s Land Army a national organisation with the task of increasing domestic food production. Behind the scenes organisers laboured to not only recruit an army of women workers but to also dispel public... more

The sword of Deborah first-hand impressions of the British women s army in France 1919 [Leather Bound]

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather Golden Screen printing in Front Color Leather Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition... more

In Zululand with the British Army - The Anglo-Zulu war of 1879 through the first-hand experiences of a special correspondent (Paperback)

In Zululand with the British Army. Eyewitness from disaster to victory. Very few professional writers are fortunate enough to be on the spot when momentous events occur. Most often we are left with accounts by amateurs. Charles Norris-Newman is... more

Pre-Owned Fighting in the Jim Crow Army : Black Men and Women Remember World War II (Other) 9780742548053

Fighting in the Jim Crow Army is filled with first-hand accounts of everyday life in 1940s America. The soldiers of the 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions speak of segregation in the military and racial attitudes in army facilities stateside and abroad.... more

Not Created Equal: An Immigrant Muslim Woman s Pursuit of Equality in Her Family the Army and America (Paperback)

In this unflinching memoir Johnson shares for the first time her heartbreaking and joyful journey. Drawing from her experiences as a single parent army officer and Muslim she demonstrates incredible perseverance traversing Middle Eastern and Western... more

Pre-Owned Doing Her Bit: A Story about the Woman s Land Army of America (Hardcover 9781580896467) by Erin Hagar

9781580896467. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 32. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 32 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. A version of this story first appeared in the Vermont College of Fine... more

Women s Identities at War: Gender Motherhood and Politics in Britain and France During the First World War (Paperback)

There are few moments in history when the division between the sexes seems as natural as during wartime: men go off to the war front while women stay behind on the home front. But the very notion of the home front was an invention of the First World... more

Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War (Hardcover)

When the Germans invaded her small Belgian village in 1914 Marthe Cnockaert s home was burned and her family separated. After getting a job at a German hospital and winning the Iron Cross for her service to the Reich she was approached by a neighbor... more

Pre-Owned Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present (Hardcover) 0871404249 9780871404244

Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world--when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeat than massive conventional armies--Max Boot best-selling author and military advisor in Iraq and Afghanistan... more

Invisible Armies : An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present (Hardcover)

As fitting for the 21st century as von Clausewitz s On War was in its own time Invisible Armies is a complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages. Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world--when Alexander the Great... more

How Did a Lack of Strategic and Operational Vision Impair the Army s Ability to Conduct Tactical Operations in Korea in the Summer of 1950? (Paperback)

When American combat forces were first deployed to Korea in 1950 the battlefield results were generally tactical defeats. The troops that were initially deployed came from occupation duty in Japan and were not prepared for combat operations. In this... more

Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present (Pre-Owned Hardcover 9780871404244) by Max Boot

9780871404244. Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 784. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 784 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white Figures. Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world-when Alexander... more

Pre-Owned Victory on the Western Front: The Development of the British Army 1914-1918 (Hardcover 9781783400652) by Michael Senior

9781783400652. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Pages: 238. 238 p. 20 illustrations. Marshal Foch the Generalissimo of the Allied Armies during the last stages of the First World War commenting on the victories won during the Hundred Days when... more

Pre-Owned When Eagles Dared: The Filmgoers History of World War II (Hardcover) 1848856504 9781848856509

When Eagles Dared is a salute to the men and women who participated in World War II and the filmmakers who have immortalised their stories on screen. It tells both the story of the historical events of this first truly world war and of the films that... more

And If I Perish : Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II (Paperback)

In World War II 59 000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began some of them had so little idea of what to expect that they packed party dresses; but the reality of service quickly caught up with... more

Routledge Studies in First World War His Military Service Tribunals and Boards in the Great War: Determining the Fate of Britain s and New Zealand s Conscripts (Paperback)

While a plethora of studies have discussed why so many men decided to volunteer for the army during the Great War the experiences of those who were called up under conscription have received relatively little scrutiny. Even when the implementation of... more

Pre-Owned The Spy Net: The Greatest Intelligence operation of the First World War (Paperback 9781849549066) by Henry Landau

9781849549066. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Paperback. Language: English. Dialogue Espionage Classics. Henry Landau was a young South African serving with the British Army when he was recruited into the British secret service the organisation we now know... more

Pre-Owned Inventing the American Woman: A Perspective on Women s History: 1607-1877 (Paperback) 0882958372 9780882958378

When the first edition of this groundbreaking survey of U.S.women s history first appeared in 1986 no one could havepredicted its spectacular success and widespread support--orthe vast proliferation of women s history courses in thenation s high... more

Vintage Civil War Library: They Fought Like Demons : Women Soldiers in the Civil War (Paperback)

Albert Cashier served three years in the Union Army and passed successfully as a man until 1911 when the aging veteran was revealed to be a woman named Jennie Hodgers. Frances Clayton kept fighting even after her husband was gunned down in front of her... more

Pre-Owned They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - Albert Cashier served three years in the Union Army and passed successfully as a man until 1911 when the aging veteran was revealed to be a woman named Jennie Hodgers. Frances Clayton kept fighting even after her husband was gunned down in... more

Pre-Owned Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in Us Women s History (Paperback) 0415925177 9780415925174

Unequal Sisters has become a beloved and classic reader in American Women s History. It provides an unparalleled resource for understanding women s history in the United States today. When it was first published in 1990 it revolutionized the field with... more

Controlling Reproduction: Women Society and State Power (Paperback)

Controlling reproduction - who has children how many and when - is important to states communities families and individuals across the globe. However the stakes are even higher than might at first be appreciated: control over reproduction is an... more

Women and ETA: The Gender Politics of Radical Basque Nationalism (Paperback)

At a time when conflicts in Europe the Middle East and elsewhere are highlighting women s roles as armed activists and combatants Women and ETA offers the first book-length study of women s participation in Spain s oldest armed movement. Drawing on a... more

Women s Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History (Paperback)

Women s Words is the first collection of writings devoted exclusively to exploring the theoretical methodological and practical problems that arise when women utilize oral history as a tool of feminist scholarship. In thirteen multi-disciplin ary esays... more

Controlling Reproduction: Women Society and State Power (Hardcover)

Controlling reproduction - who has children how many and when - is important to states communities families and individuals across the globe. However the stakes are even higher than might at first be appreciated: control over reproduction is an... more

Parlor Politics : In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (Paperback)

When Thomas Jefferson moved his victorious Republican administration into the new capital city in 1801 one of his first acts was to abolish any formal receptions except on New Year s Day and the Fourth of July. His successful campaign for the... more

Cambridge Library Collection - European History: A Turkish Woman s European Impressions (Paperback)

Zeyneb Hanoum (who died c. 1923) and her sister Melek fled Turkey in 1906 at a time when women s freedom was severely restricted. This book first published in 1913 is a collection of letters written by Zeyneb to her friend feminist journalist Grace... more

Battle for Skyline Ridge: The CIA Secret War in Laos (Hardcover)

The first complete account of the secret battle of Skyline Ridge 1972 when a ragtag Laos-Thai army supported by the CIA threw back a vast NVA army. In late 1971 the People s Army of Vietnam launched Campaign Z into northern Laos escalating the war in... more

Cathy Williams in History and Memory: Life Of A Legend As A Female Buffalo Soldier: How Cathy Williams Became The Female Buffalo Soldier (Paperback)

Cathay Williams was an African-American soldier who enlisted in the United States Army under the pseudonym William Cathay. She was the first Black woman to enlist and the only documented woman to serve in the United States Army posing as a man during... more

Patton s Unsung Armor of the Ardennes (Paperback - Used) 1436338069 9781436338066

When Hitler s huge counterattack was overwhelming First U.S. Army s thin line in the Ardennes Forest in December 1944 the 10th Armored Division of Patton s Third Army secretly roared 75 miles north overnight flung its tanks in front of the German... more

To Serve My Country to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II (Paperback)

The story of the historic 6888th the first United States Women s Army Corps unit of African American women to serve overseas While African American men and white women were invited if belatedly to serve their country abroad African American women were... more

To Serve My Country to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II (Hardcover)

The story of the historic 6888th the first United States Women s Army Corps unit of African American women to serve overseas While African American men and white women were invited if belatedly to serve their country abroad African American women were... more

Secret History of the IRA (Paperback)

Filled with disclosures and based on the author s unprecedented access to the Irish Republican Army this explosive book sparked controversy when it was first published in hardcover. Delving deeply into the inner workings furtive plots and deadly... more

Hellenistic Culture and Society: Into the Land of Bones : Alexander the Great in Afghanistan (Series #47) (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

What George W. Bush called the first war of the twenty-first century actually began more than 2 300 years ago when Alexander the Great led his army into what is now a sprawling ruin in northern Afghanistan. Accounts of Alexander s invasion of ancient... more

In The Service of Peace (2001) Paperback Book - (Memories of Lebanon)

Ireland became a member of the United Nations in 1955. The first contribution to peacekeeping was in 1958 when Army officers were assigned to the United Nations Observer Group in Lebanon (UNOGIL). Since 1958 the Defence Forces have had a continuous... more

Modern War Studies War s Desolating Scourge: The Union s Occupation of North Alabama (Hardcover)

When General Ormsby Mitchel and his Third Division Army of the Ohio marched into North Alabama in April 1862 they initiated the first occupation of an inland region in the Deep South during the Civil War. As an occupying force soldiers were expected to... more

A Guide to Civil War Washington D.C. (Hardcover)

When the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861 Washington D.C. was a small essentially Southern city. The capital rapidly transformed as it prepared for invasion--army camps sprung up in Foggy Bottom the Navy Yard on Anacostia was a beehive... more

Routledge Research in Gender and History Revisiting Gender in European History 1400-1800 (Paperback)

Do women have a history? Did women have a renaissance? These were provocative questions when they were raised in the heyday of women s studies in the 1970s. But how relevant does gender remain to premodern history in the twenty-first century? This book... more