Women in War
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D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
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Sarah Rose
3.77 avg rating — 6,236 ratings 3. 
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
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Liza Mundy
3.96 avg rating — 29,155 ratings 5. 
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Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
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James Wyllie
3.83 avg rating — 2,709 ratings 7. 
On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam
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Joyce Hoffmann
4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings 8. 
War Torn: The Personal Experiences of Women Reporters in the Vietnam War
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Tad Bartimus
4.40 avg rating — 198 ratings 9. 
The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II 4.20 avg rating — 2,268 ratings
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No Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
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Wendy Moore
4.10 avg rating — 1,199 ratings 12. 
A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
by:
Elizabeth Wein
3.90 avg rating — 803 ratings 
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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Denise Kiernan
3.73 avg rating — 31,441 ratings 15. 
Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue 4.06 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
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The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There
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Sinclair McKay
3.80 avg rating — 4,194 ratings 17. 
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan 4.28 avg rating — 4,732 ratings
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Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
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Emily Yellin
4.09 avg rating — 713 ratings 19. 
Soldier, Sister, Spy, Scout: Women Soldiers and Patriots on the Western Frontier
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Chris Enss
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings 20. 
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
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Le Ly Hayslip
4.12 avg rating — 4,293 ratings 21. 
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
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Anne Sebba
3.83 avg rating — 1,872 ratings 22. 
Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE
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Gordon Thomas
3.69 avg rating — 267 ratings 23. 
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War 3.93 avg rating — 1,168 ratings
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Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
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Lynne Olson
4.22 avg rating — 8,386 ratings 25. 
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
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Sonia Purnell
4.15 avg rating — 58,208 ratings 26. 
Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
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Larry Loftis
3.99 avg rating — 11,603 ratings 27. 
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
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Jason Fagone
4.09 avg rating — 23,147 ratings 
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GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love
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Duncan Barrett
3.90 avg rating — 3,571 ratings 30. 
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
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Christina Lamb
4.64 avg rating — 4,092 ratings 30. 
Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps 3.83 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
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Lisa Rogak
3.91 avg rating — 1,719 ratings 33. 
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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Iris Chang
4.24 avg rating — 50,745 ratings 33. 
Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler’s Aces 3.78 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
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Heather Sheard
3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings 35. 
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The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 4.37 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador
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Jocelyn Viterna
4.41 avg rating — 51 ratings 37. 
Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories
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Jacqueline Dinan
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 37. 
Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot's Memoir of the Eastern Front 4.28 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Warum war ich bloß ein Mädchen? Das Trauma einer Flucht 1945
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Gabi Köpp
3.36 avg rating — 220 ratings 43. 
They Fought for the Motherland: Russia's Women Soldiers in World War I and the Revolution
by:
Laurie S. Stoff
3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings 45. 
The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria
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Helon Habila
3.71 avg rating — 425 ratings 45. 
Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II 3.90 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present 3.52 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
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Judy Batalion
4.07 avg rating — 9,480 ratings 49. 
De gikk ikke fri; Kvinnene som elsket okkupasjonsmaktens soldater liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
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Simon Parkin
3.89 avg rating — 1,817 ratings 
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Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II 3.74 avg rating — 2,036 ratings
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A Brief History of the Amazons: Women Warriors in Myth and History 3.21 avg rating — 133 ratings
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
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Anonymous
4.29 avg rating — 17,075 ratings 
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The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home 3.91 avg rating — 1,447 ratings
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Babes In Arms: Women in the Comics During World War Two
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Trina Robbins
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform
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Midge Gillies
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings 69. 
The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
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Clare Mulley
3.74 avg rating — 2,313 ratings 70. 
Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Few Good Women: America's Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan 3.78 avg rating — 69 ratings
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A Cool and Lonely Courage: The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France
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Susan Ottaway
3.72 avg rating — 999 ratings 73. 
Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned
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Alvin Townley
4.51 avg rating — 633 ratings 73. 
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
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Carolyn Forché
4.42 avg rating — 3,266 ratings 75. 
Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
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Helen Thorpe
3.83 avg rating — 2,306 ratings 75. 
Bedpan Commando: The Story of a Combat Nurse During World War II
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June Wandrey
4.34 avg rating — 344 ratings 77. 
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
by:
Karen Abbott
3.76 avg rating — 16,840 ratings 77. 
Lucie Aubrac: The French Resistance Heroine Who Outwitted the Gestapo
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Siân Rees
3.86 avg rating — 108 ratings 
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Capital Dames: the Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
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Cokie Roberts
3.83 avg rating — 2,200 ratings 81. 
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield 4.32 avg rating — 5,906 ratings
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Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines
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Mona Behan
3.88 avg rating — 329 ratings 83. 
WWII Voices: American GI's and the French Women Who Married Them
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Hilary Kaiser
3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings 84. 
The Punishment Of Virtue: Walking The Frontline Of The War On Terror With A Woman Who Made It Her Home
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Sarah Chayes
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 85. 
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The Girl from Kathmandu: Twelve Dead Men and a Woman's Quest for Justice
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Cam Simpson
4.24 avg rating — 291 ratings 88. 
Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter
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Zohra Drif
4.36 avg rating — 168 ratings 
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A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy
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Deborah McDonald
3.62 avg rating — 145 ratings 91. 
A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Remembered (Painted Turtle Book)
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J. David Riva
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 92. 
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
by:
Clea Koff
4.02 avg rating — 2,953 ratings 93. 
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The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines
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Kara Dixon Vuic
3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings 
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Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines Are Trained
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Kate Germano
3.80 avg rating — 206 ratings 100. 
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After 4.19 avg rating — 24,692 ratings