Books like They fought like demons by DeAnne Blanton

A collection of first‑hand accounts by women who served in the Soviet forces during World War II, assembled by Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich.

"More than 75 million people fought in World War II--nearly all of them men. Who was going to produce the weapons and the food, and do countless other important jobs? The answer was women. Millions stepped forward to take on work they had rarely done before, such as fighting fires, plowing fields, and cracking codes. These are the stories of four trailblazers who achieved amazing things in difficult circumstances." -- Page [4] cover.

The book profiles courageous women who served as spies, daughters of regiments, or disguised soldiers during the American Civil War, including Belle Boyd, Annie Etheridge, and Sarah Emma Edmonds.

"In World War I, telephones linked commanding generals with soldiers in muddy trenches. A woman in uniform connected almost every one of their calls, speeding the orders that won the war. Like other soldiers, the "Hello Girls" swore the Army oath and stayed for the duration. A few were graduates of elite colleges. Most were ordinary, enterprising young women motivated by patriotism and adventure, eager to test their mettle and save the world. The first contingent arrived in France just as the German Army trained "Big Bertha" on Paris, bombarding the frightened city as the new women of the U.S. Army struggled through unlit streets to find their billets. A handful followed General Pershing to the gates of Verdun and the battlefields of Meuse-Argonne. When the switchboard operators sailed home a year later, the Army dismissed them without veterans' benefits or victory medals. The women commenced a sixty-year fight that a handful of survivors carried to triumph in 1979. This book shows how technological developments encouraged an unusual band to volunteer for military service at the precise moment that feminists back home championed a federal suffrage amendment. The same desire to participate fully in the life of their country animated both groups, and both struggled after 1920 to reap the rewards of victory. Their experiences illuminate ways in which sex-role change was embraced and resisted throughout the twentieth century, and the ways that men and women struggled together for gender justice."--Provided by publisher.

Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore explores how Southern women shaped and were shaped by the Civil War and Reconstruction, using diaries, letters, and court records to reveal their political and social agency.

A nineteen‑year‑old woman, posing as a man, serves as a nurse in the Civil War and later becomes a spy for the Union Army.

First Lieutenant Ashley White leads a pioneering squad of female U.S. Army soldiers who fight beside Special Operations forces in Afghanistan, charting their trials and triumphs on the battlefield.