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    25 Women Who Protected Their Country
    25 Women Who Protected Their Country
    25 Women Who Protected Their Country
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    25 Women Who Protected Their Country

    By Emma Bernay and Emma Carlson-Berne

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    Discover 25 women who served in the military and accomplished great feats of strength and bravery. Whether through medicine, espionage, journalism, or combat, these 25 women show what it takes to be a hero.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateAug 1, 2020
    ISBN9780756567675
    25 Women Who Protected Their Country
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    Emma Bernay

    Emma Carlson Berne has written more than a dozen books for children and young adults, including teen romance novels, biographies, and history books. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband, Aaron, her son, Henry, and her dog, Holly. Emma Carlson Berne has written numerous historical and biographical books for children and young adults, as well as young adult fiction. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband and two sons.

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      Book preview

      25 Women Who Protected Their Country - Emma Bernay

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Cover

      Title Page

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: Working with the Wounded

      Chapter 2: Bravery on the Battlefield

      Chapter 3: Dispatches from the Front Lines

      Chapter 4: Covert Combat

      Timeline

      Glossary

      Critical Thinking Questions

      Further Reading

      Internet Sites

      Select Bibliography

      About the Author

      Source Notes

      Index

      Copyright

      Back Cover

      INTRODUCTION

      Wars require incredible bravery. Soldiers, civilians, correspondents, medics, doctors, and nurses must be prepared to see horrific sights. They may save lives, take lives, or risk their own. Though much of history has focused on men’s roles in war, women have been a part of warfare for as long as it has existed.

      Alongside their male counterparts—and sometimes forging ahead—women have fired shots, flown fighter planes, phoned in news dispatches as bullets whizzed around them, and passed along critical, secret information. They have faced down prejudice and discrimination from those who believed women could not be calm, collected, and courageous under fire. Women who protect their country have been all of those things, proving their critics wrong.¹

      When the United States ended its draft in 1973, women represented just 2 percent of enlisted forces. By 2018 that number was 16 percent.

      I have had the opportunity to witness women soldiers jump out of airplanes, hike 10 miles, lead men and women, even under the toughest circumstances…. Thousands of women have been decorated for valor…. Today, what was once a band of brothers has truly become a band of brothers and sisters.

      —Army General Ann E. Dunwoody, first female four-star general

      — Chapter 1 —

      WORKING WITH THE WOUNDED

      In groundbreaking military hospitals, in helicopters, and in bullet-ridden roadside ditches, women doctors, nurses, and combat medics have saved the lives of their own soldiers, and often, of those on the enemy side. They’ve taught themselves new medical techniques under pressure and stayed focused on their jobs while bombs were exploding around them. Their first concern was always on the wounded people who needed their help.

      Edith Cavell (1865–1915)

      Edith Cavell, photographed shortly before her death

      Born in 1865 in Norfolk, England, Cavell had a peaceful childhood with her sisters. She became a governess and later, after nursing her father through an illness, decided to become a nurse. This decision would lead her to save lives in more ways than one.

      Cavell trained in England, then moved to Belgium to help found that country’s first nursing school and training hospital. When World War I (1914–1918) broke out, the nursing school became a Red Cross hospital, and Cavell helped the wounded soldiers there.

      Belgium, a British ally, was under German occupation. But Cavell ordered her nurses to treat any soldier who came to the hospital, regardless of whose side they were on. In the fall of 1914, Cavell arranged for two wounded Allied soldiers at her hospital to be smuggled out to the neutral Netherlands, where they would be safe. From 1914 to 1915, Cavell smuggled out more than 200 Allied soldiers, using an underground tunnel.

      Cavell often spoke out against the German occupation, and German authorities became suspicious of her. Despite the risk, Cavell refused to stop her underground smuggling. In summer 1915, a soldier who was collaborating with the

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