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Why Women Fight

Victoria Preston
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781837052530
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Jul 2026
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

Why do women fight in wars? The short answer is simply that women, like men, fight because they must. The longer answer is inevitably more complex.

Spanning an arc of over 2000 years, including examples from across the globe, Why Women Fight reveals the major themes that drive women to take up arms, examining them through the lives of individuals on the front lines. Busting the myth that female soldiers are a manifestation of modernity, the book begins in the ninth century BCE with Semiramis, a former milkmaid attributed with expanding the Babylonian empire, and concludes in 2024 with Tatiana, a former shop assistant who went on to command a Ukrainian Battalion of a thousand men.

Incorporating extraordinary interviews with Marxist guerillas, resistance fighters, illegal paramilitaries, conscripts and regular volunteers, the book explores some of the myriad reasons that women across the ages have broken one of humanity’s most fundamental taboos, to take up arms and fight for their kin, their ideas, their liberty, their lives…
About Victoria Preston
VICTORIA PRESTON has a background in strategic communications, and over the course of four decades has advised international corporations and governments, working with clients all over the world. At the age of 59 she was tapped up to join the British Army as a Specialist Reservist Officer. Serving under the Royal Engineers cap badge she contributed to a variety of assignments, including sitting on a number of advisory boards. While she stepped down in 2025, Victoria continues to support the British military in a civilian capacity.

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