Lena Andrews is the author of Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II, and a military >analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, she received her Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in international relations and security studies. She has spent more than a decade in foreign policy, and her work has appeared on MSNBC, PBS, CNN, Today, People, and TIME, among many other outlets.
At Publishers Weekly Andrews tagged ten of the best histories of women in WWII, including:
And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II by Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-GreenleeRead about the other entries on the list.
This remains one of my favorites in large part because it’s one of the few, comprehensive histories of American servicewomen who served in essential roles as Army nurses. Monahan and Neidel-Green knit together an immersive, theater-by-theater narrative of the dangerous, heroic, and exhilarating stories of American Army nurses, who often faced some of the most difficult and traumatizing conditions but are rarely remembered for it.
--Marshal Zeringue
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