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Undaunted : the real story of America's servicewomen in today's military / Tanya Biank.
Van Pelt Library UB418.W65 B53 2013
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biank, Tanya.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in combat.
- Armed Forces.
- United States--Armed Forces--Women--Biography.
- United States.
- Women in combat--United States.
- United States--Armed Forces--Military life.
- Armed Forces--Military life.
- Armed Forces--Women.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 350 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : NAL Caliber, [2013]
- Summary:
- Tanya Biank gives us the inside story of women in today's military and their professional and personal challenges from the combat zone to the home front.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A few good women
- Ooorah on the high seas
- The general
- The cadet
- Doyenne of the depot
- Toy soldiers
- The burn
- Typhoon season
- Double time
- Return to Parris Island
- Brotherhood revisited
- The lieutenant
- Paradise lost
- Nicky the new hat
- Exhaustion
- The fight
- A Christmas farewell
- In the trenches
- Winds of war
- Jedi knight
- Into the desert of death
- Looking back, moving forward
- Three days
- Decision point
- The Purple Heart
- Stars
- The Afghan trimester
- The long road home
- Diva in boots
- The iron major
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Roberta S. & Leonard S. Leibman, W'53 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780451239228
- 0451239229
- OCLC:
- 795168521
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