"Popular author Rosalind Miles and acclaimed military historian Robin Cross paint vivid portraits of the lives of over 100 extraordinary women across 3,000 years of history. Ranging from the 'killer queen' Boudicca who wreaked brutal vengeance on the Roman Empire for insults against her family and her tribe, to modern-day warriors queens such as Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher, and from British master spy Virginia Hall, to Second World War air ace Hanna Reitsch, 'Warrior Women' restores women's deeds in wartime to their rightful place of honor and prominence. It is a fitting testament to all those women who have ever gone to war and who even now take up arms in the battle-scarred places of the world." Partial taken from front flap.

Includes index.

Amazons -- Deborah -- Sammu-Ramat -- Artemisia -- Telesilla -- Cleopatra VII -- Boudicca -- Cartimandua -- The Tru'ung sisters -- Zenobia -- Brunhilde -- Women fighters of the Arab world -- Wu Chao -- Aethelflaed -- Matilda of Tuscany -- Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Tamara -- Isabella of France -- Isabel of Fife -- Joan of Arc -- Margaret of Anjou -- Isabella I of Spain -- Caterina Sforza -- Malinalli Tenepal -- Chiyome -- Grace O'Malley -- Elizabeth I -- Jinga Mbandi -- Catalina de Erauso -- Lady Mary Bankes -- Warrior women of Dahomey -- Hannah Snell -- Catherine II -- Molly Pitcher -- Deborah Sampson -- Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt -- Nadezhda Durova -- Cheng I Sao -- 'La Saragossa' -- Rani Lakshmibai -- Tz'u-Hsi -- Elisa Lynch -- Harriet Ross Tubman -- Anna Etheridge -- Louise Michel -- Soldaderas -- Flora Sandes -- Mariya Bochkareva -- Marthe Richard -- Dorothy Lawrence -- Constance Markiewicz -- Sabiha Gökçen -- Women of the Long March -- Dolores Ibárruri Gomes -- Lilya Litvak -- Red Army women soldiers -- Britain's mixed anti-aircraft batteries -- Women of the Warsaw ghetto uprising -- Vera Atkins -- Pearl Witherington -- Christine Granville -- Andrée de Jongh -- Virginia Hall -- Maria Gulovich -- Hanna Reitsch -- Ruth Werner -- Olga Chekhova -- Susan Travers -- Jacqueline Cochran -- Lillian Kinkela Keil -- Haydée Santamaria -- Golda Meir -- Jeanne Holm -- Margaret Thatcher -- Women in the US military since 1941 -- Martha McSally -- 'Tammy' Duckworth.