Any recommendations for books about women in history, particularly women in war!. also, books where a man might usually be a central character, but taken from a woman's point of view instead!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Christina, the Queen of Sweden (by Veronica Buckley) There are a couple about Queen Elizabeth as well, Heart and Stomach of a King or something like that is one of them I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson Once a Grand Duchess: Xenia, Sister of Nicholas II by John Van der Kiste Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer and Lenore J!. Weitzman Love Carried Me Home: Women Surviving Auschwitz (Kindle Edition) by Joy Miller The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town (Paperback) by Steven Ozment The Hiroshima Maidens: A Story of Courage, Compassion and Survival by Rodney BarkerWww@QuestionHome@Com For fiction, Ann Rinaldi does a lot of great historical fiction novels centered on female characters and set during the Civil War, Revolutionary War, etc!. I also like Sharon Kay Penman, who doesn't specifically focus on female characters, but who generally has very good ones!. She writes mainly about Plantagenet England!. I recommend starting with Here Be Dragons!. Lysistrata is an example of Ancient Greek women's response to war!. There's quite a bit of good nonfiction out there about women's history!. Herstory is one that comes to mind, and the Uppity Women series!.Www@QuestionHome@Com There is a poetry book by a woman called Carol Ann Duffy!. Its called The World's Wife!. It is a selection of poems written from the point of view of the wife of many men in history and myth - Freud, King Midas, The Devil and loads others!. I don't know if that is any help!. If you are looking for short stories or novels there is one I know of called The Penelopoid - which tells the story of the Odyssey from Odieios' wife's point of view!. But again this is myth rather than actual history!. There is The Diary of Ann Frank who was a jew in the second world war whose family were hidden through most of the war!. It depends on what sort of books you need - factual or fiction!? Www@QuestionHome@Com Fiesta, the Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway!.!.!. Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayWww@QuestionHome@Com |