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(0)Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, author of the New York Times bestseller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, comes the story of a unique team of women who answered the call to get as close to the fight as the Army had ever allowed women to be, including one beloved soldier who was killed serving her country's cause
In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil war-a rare achievement for any Afghan woman-Kamila was subsequently banned from school and confined to her home. When her father and brother were forced to flee the city, Kamila became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Armed only with grit and determination, she picked up a needle and...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won. In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. And yet that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of. The Islamic State by then had swept across vast swaths of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around...