Amazons to fighter pilots : a biographical dictionary of military women

Author(s)

• Pennington, Reina
• Higham, Robin D. S.
• Weinberg, Gerhard L.

Bibliographic Information

Amazons to fighter pilots : a biographical dictionary of military women

Reina Pennington, editor ; Robin Higham, advisory editor ; foreword by Gerhard Weinberg

Greenwood Press, 2003

• : set
• v. 1 : A-Q
• v. 2 : R-Z

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In 1942, during the battle of Stalingrad, fighter pilot Liliia Litviak became the first woman to shoot down an enemy aircraft. In the 1850s, Lakshmi Bai, a horsewoman, good shot, and Rani of the Indian principality of Jhansi, rallied her subjects and defended the principality against a British siege. From antiquity to the present, thousands of women have served in the military as soldiers, sailors, physicians, and pilots, yet their stories have been hidden from history. This book tells their stories, with particular focus on women who fought. Entries profile over 300 remarkable women of the military, covering such groups as the Amazons, women in the Spanish Civil War, and Native Americans. The full sweep of their experience is contextualized through an extensive timeline and introductory survey. Additional tidbits—quotations, statistics, information on women and war—appear in sidebars throughout the text. Lists grouping entries by geographical regions, time periods, and branch of service serve as finding aids for researchers, making this a unique resource for students, scholars, and the general reader.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Gerhard Weinberg Preface List of Entries by Geographic Region List of Entries by Time Period/Conflict List of Entries by Role/Branch of Service List of Entries by Prisoner/POW Status Introduction: A Historical Overview of Women in the Military and in War Abbreviations Entries Timeline Appendix A: Women as Prisoners of War: A Bibliographic Survey Appendix B: Women, Medicine, and the Military: A Bibliographic Survey Bibliography Index About the Contributors

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA66345018
• ISBN:
  • 0313291977
  • 0313327076
  • 0313327084
• LCCN: 2002044777
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Westport, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : U52
  • DC21 : 355/.0082
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women soldiers -- Biography -- Dictionaries
  • LCSH : Women sailors -- Biography -- Dictionaries