Book Review: Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

Military History |

Author: Lena Andrews

| Reviewed by Dr. Christine Cook, director of theories and war, Department of Distance Education, US Army War College
  ©2025 Christine Cook
 
In Valiant Women, author Lena Andrews compiles stories that were largely gathered through interviews with women who served during World War II and uncovers their important but often overlooked contributions to the war effort. Although the reviewer regrets Andrews’s missed opportunity to include academic sources alongside the firsthand accounts, she still sees this compilation of untold stories as relevant and important.
 

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Keywords: Allied strategy, World War II, military history, biography