Band of Sisters - Hardcover

Holmstedt, Kirsten

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811702677 ISBN 13: 9780811702676

Publisher: Stackpole Books, 2007

Synopsis

Used. Very Good conditions. May have soft reading marks and name of the previous owner.

About this title

About the Author:

Kirsten Holmstedt has appeared on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CNN, C-SPANs BookTV, and numerous local television and radio stations nationwide. An award-winning writer with twenty years of experience, she lives in North Carolina.

From Booklist:

Holmstedt started studying the experience of women marines when she lived near Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Her research became a master's thesis in creative writing and the most up-to-date discussion of women in the current war. Unblushingly in favor of women in combat, she doesn't whitewash their experiences or exaggerate their achievements. Their male colleagues aren't universally accepting, but many of them admit that the women are performing effectively; since 20 percent of the troops currently in Iraq are women, they must. Following the tradition of American soldiers before them, they say that they are "just doing the job." That is, they are flying F-18s into enemy ground fire, driving Hummers and trucks that may be ambushed at any moment, and playing invaluable roles in intelligence operations and in the nation building that is one of the more positive aspects of a seemingly interminable and frustrating conflict. Nearly 500 female soldiers have been killed or wounded in Iraq. Invaluable as well as readable. Green, Roland

About this edition

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0811702677
• ISBN 13: 9780811702676
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384