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The War Queens - Extraordinary Women Who Ruled the Battlefield (Hardcover)
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The War Queens - Extraordinary Women Who Ruled the Battlefield (Hardcover)
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The ingenious wartime tactics of some of history's most powerful
female leaders, from the stifling battlefields of ancient Egypt to
the frigid waters off the Falkland Islands. History's killer queens
come in all colors, ages, and leadership styles. Elizabeth Tudor
and Golda Meir played the roles of high-stakes gamblers who studied
maps with an unblinking, calculating eye. Angola's Queen Njinga was
willing to shed (and occasionally drink) blood to establish a
stable kingdom in an Africa ravaged by the slave trade. Caterina
Sforza defended her Italian holdings with cannon and scimitar, and
Indira Gandhi launched a war to solve a refugee crisis. From
ancient Persia to modern-day Britain, the daunting thresholds these
exceptional women had to cross-and the clever, sometimes violent
ways in which they smashed obstacles in their paths-are evoked in
vivid detail. The narrative sidles up to these war queens in the
most dire, tumultuous moments of their reigns and examines the
brilliant methods and maneuvers they each used to defend themselves
and their people from enemy forces. Father-daughter duo Jonathan W.
and Emily Anne Jordan extoll the extraordinary power and potential
of women in history who walked through war's kiln and emerged from
the other side-some burnished to greatness, others burned to
cinders. All of them, legends.
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