PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Sarah Percy is Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. She was formerly Fellow in International Relations at Merton College, Oxford, where she was on the steering committee of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War. Author and presenter of an acclaimed ABC radio series on the Cold War, her acclaimed previous book, Mercenaries, examined another unconventional military history, over multiple locations, from the medieval period until the present day. This is her first trade book.
'The individual tales of women who took up arms on the battlefield - and there are many - bring great life and colour to the page . . . An important contribution to the field of military history' * The Times * Outstanding . . . Percy's text is hard-hitting, and evidence-based * Wavell Reviews * Fascinating . . . in evidencing women's long military service, Percy combats . . . the final exclusion - from the historial record * BBC History Magazine * Most people have heard of Boudicca and Joan of Arc. But as this brilliant, perspective-shattering book shows, the contributions of myriad other women who have fought on the frontlines of conflict over the past 2,000 years have routinely been suppressed * Bookseller *
