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After her beloved husband was forced to fight for William III, Mrs Christian ‘Kit’ Welsh was not going to let her happy home be torn apart by war. Instead, she donned her husband’s clothes and joined the Duke of Marlborough’s Dragoons. Under the name of Christopher Welsh, she began her pursuit of her ‘brother’ Richard, which took her across Europe, onto the battlefield throughout the Nine Years War and the War of the Spanish Succession, and through an exploration of her own identity as a woman, wife, mother and soldier. Women Warriors explores the compelling lives of ten extraordinary women who rejected the limits that society placed upon their sex, by dressing as men and entering the masculine worlds of the state and military. These women fought, slept, grumbled and caroused alongside their fellow soldiers, all without discovery over various time periods – from weeks to decades. Despite the restrictions on women in close combat in the military, which still hold today, these women were involved in pivotal bat
'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ...
A woman's devotional for spiritual warfare to use every day of the year. With the same bold, declarative style as the bestselling books Prayers That Rout Demons and Daily Declarations for Spiritual Warfare, this daily guide gives women warriors inspiration, understanding, and direction for confronti
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In the tradition of Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra, Brown lays to rest the hoary myth that Viking society was ruled by men and celebrates the dramatic lives of female Viking warriors Once again, Brown brings Viking history to vivid, unexpected life--and in the process, turns what we thought we knew about
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A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and The Washington Post Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour de force that tells the powerful ( The New York Times Book Review ) story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall's efforts to uncover the truth about these women wa
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