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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II 

byLena Andrews

Lena Andrews restores the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II to the center of the Allied war effort. Women worked across service branches and combat theaters as nurses, pilots, mechanics, codebreakers, administrators, drivers, and specialists, often entering roles previously closed to them. The book follows their recruitment, training, contributions, discrimination, and difficult return to civilian life. Andrews shows that their service expanded military capacity and altered expectations about citizenship and work, even as official histories and postwar institutions minimized what these women had accomplished.

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780063088337