The girls come marching home : stories of women warriors returning from the war in Iraq / Kirsten Holmstedt.
In her award-winning Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq, Kirsten Holmstedt described how female soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are fighting on the front lines in Iraq despite the military's ban on women in combat. Now Holmstedt tells the stories of America's fighting women as they come home from Iraq. --from publisher description
Record details
- ISBN: 9780811705165
- ISBN: 0811705161
- Physical Description: ix, 325 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: Mechanicsburg, Pa. : Stackpole Books, 2009.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Includes index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Light in the Darkness 1 -- Still in the Fight 27 -- Mary Sutton 56 -- Who Ya Gonna Call? The Bomb Squad 59 -- Still I Rise 81 -- Ronda Warrick 104 -- Been There, Done That 107 -- Out of My Way 123 -- Jeanna Marrano 167 -- A Fresh Start 169 -- Quixote in Ramadi 191 -- Lisa Spencer 219 -- World as She Knows It 223 -- Thirty-Five Days 237 -- Ashley Pullen 266 -- Black Rose 271 -- Full Circle 293 -- Irene O'Neal 307.
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- Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Women > United States > Biography.
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- Biographies.
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 956.7044 HOL (Text) | 36015000707287 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Summary:
In her award-winning Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq, Kirsten Holmstedt described how female soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are fighting on the front lines in Iraq despite the military's ban on women in combat. Now Holmstedt tells the stories of America's fighting women as they come home from Iraq. --from publisher description
