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Women war heroines
- Title
- Women war heroines / George and Anne Forty.
- Author
- Forty, George.
- Publication
- London : Arms and Armour ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA by Sterling Pub., c1997.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Forty, Anne.
- Description
- 190 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- The matriarchs. Boudicca, the warrior queen ; Grace of the cropped hair -- Protecting the home. Lady Mary Bankes ; Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby ; Lady Blanche Arundel ; Kenau Hasselaar, defender of Haarlem -- The visionaries. Joan of Arc ; Agustina, the Maid of Saragossa ; Louise Michel, the Red Virgin -- The patriots. Renée Bordereau, heroine of La Vendée ; Heroines of the American Civil War ; Belle Boyd, 'La Belle Rebelle' -- Following the loved one. Mother Ross, dragoon and sutleress ; Mary Schellenck ; Loreta Velázquez ; Susanna Dalbiac and Lady Juana Smith, heroines undisguised ; Margaret Corbin, Fanny Doyle and Molly Pitcher : women at the guns ; Anita Garibaldi -- Women at sea. Mary Anne Talbot ; Mary Read ; Anne Bonny ; Hannah Snell, the brave marine -- Eternal tomboys. Catalina de Erauso, the ensign nun ; Sarah Taylor, the Manchester heroine ; A Prussian heroine, Anne Sophia Detzliffin ; Deborah Sampson Gannett, revolutionary soldier ; The Fernig sisters, a pair of heroines ; Thérèse Figueur, the carefree dragoon -- In father's footsteps. Phoebe Hessel, the little drummer ; Alexandrine Barreau, the Tarn grenadier -- The professionals. Flora Sandes : Nashi Engleskinja, 'Our English-woman' ; Yashka, peasant, exile and soldier -- The opportunists. James Barry, an officer and a gentleman ; Dorothy Lawrence -- Spies. Chevalier d'Eon ; Mata Hari ; Edith Louisa Cavell ; Marie-Madeleine Fourcade ; Christine Granville, GM, OBE, Croix de Guerre ; Yvonne Claire Cerneau : 'Jacqueline' -- To fight or not to fight. British servicewomen ; American servicewomen ; Women soldiers worldwide -- Fact or fiction? Jenny Cameron ; Lucy Brewer, leatherneck or liar? ; Colonel Sir Victor Barker, DSO 173 -- Women warriors in song and verse.
- Call Number
- JFE 01-12502
- ISBN
- 1854093975
- LCCN
- 98232489
- OCLC
- 38550440
- Author
- Forty, George.
- Title
- Women war heroines / George and Anne Forty.
- Imprint
- London : Arms and Armour ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA by Sterling Pub., c1997.
- Added Author
- Forty, Anne.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-12502