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"Rosie the Riveter became the most enduring image of women's involvement in World War II ... As wartime production workers, enlistees in auxiliary military units, members of voluntary organizations or resistance groups, wives and mothers on the home front, journalists, and USO performers, American women found ways to challenge traditional gender roles and stereotypes ... [This book describes the] contributions they made to the fight against the Axis powers and how American women's roles changed during the war. The primary documents (newspapers, propaganda posters, cartoons, excerpts from oral histories and memoirs, speeches, photographs, and editorials) collected here represent cultural, political, economic, and social perspectives on the diverse roles women played during World War II"--Provided by publisher.

In 1943, eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Erickson finds a way to support the war effort and realize her dream of becoming a pilot.

Tells the stories of fifteen women who risked their lives through their activities as spies, medics, journalists, resisters and saboteurs in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.

More women are serving in the United States military than ever before which means there are more female veterans than ever. Many of them saw combat in Afghanistan and Iraq and all of them have served in a military culture that is often hostile to women. Even though the formal ban on women in combat roles was lifted in 2013, some of this hostility still exists. Women veterans have also suffered from PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and loss of limbs. Some are victims of sexual assault and many are homeless. Often, the women's stories are overshawdowed. This book follows more than a dozen women veterans as they struggle with the physical and psychological wounds of their military service.

"Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939--and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences. For the ambitious young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired, though, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbruck, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Their stories cross continents--from New York to Paris, Germany, and Poland--as Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten. In Lilac Girls, Martha Hall Kelly has crafted a remarkable novel of unsung women and their quest for love, freedom, and second chances. It is a story that will keep readers bonded with the characters, searching for the truth, until the final pages. Advance praise for Lilac Girls "Rich with historical detail and riveting to the end, Lilac Girls weaves the lives of three astonishing women into a story of extraordinary moral power set against the harrowing backdrop of Europe in thrall to Nazi Germany. Martha Hall Kelly moves effortlessly across physical and ethical battlegrounds, across the trajectory of a doomed wartime romance, across the territory of the soul. I can't remember the last time I read a novel that moved me so deeply."--Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author of A Hundred Summers and The Secret Life of Violet Grant "Inspired by actual events and real people, Martha Hall Kelly has woven together the stories of three women during World War II that reveal the bravery, cowardice, and cruelty of those days. This is a part of history--women's history--that should never be forgotten."--Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of China Dolls"--.

Helen wants to contribute to the war effort after the United States goes to war in 1917--so she joins the Women's Land Army of America, an organization that trains women to do farm work, replacing the workers drafted into the army.

Learn about the controversial and inspiring movement that took decades to achieve suffrage for all women in the United States.

Shares the stories of twelve American women warriors who fought in Iraq as part of the U.S. military force.

Interviews in America and Japan relate the experiences of the Hiroshima Maidens. Describes their memories of the blast, the extent of their disfigurement, and the effect of their plastic surgery performed in the United States.