A Few Good Women

In this riveting narrative history women veterans from the world wars Vietnam the Gulf War Afghanistan and Iraq tell their extraordinary stories.. Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee spent fifteen years combing through archives journals histories and news reports and gathering thousands of eyewitness accounts letters and interviews for this unprecedented chronicle of Americas few good women. Women today make up more than fifteen percent of the U.S. armed forces and serve alongside men in almost every capacity. Here are the stories of the battles these women fought to march beside their brothers their tales of courage and fortitude of indignities endured of injustices overcome of the blood theyve shed and the comrades theyve lost and the challenges they still face in the twenty-first century.