The Warrior Queens
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Antonia Fraser examines the lives and legends of women who led armies into battle, from the ancient world to the twentieth century. Her subjects include Boadicea, Cleopatra, Zenobia of Palmyra, Queen Tamara of Georgia, Isabella of Castile, the Rani of Jhansi and Margaret Thatcher. Fraser looks at how these warrior queens gained power, how they were seen by their contemporaries, and how myth and prejudice shaped the stories later told about them.
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- Shane Parrish: “This book looks through history and examines the stories and legends of female rulers who commanded in battle. Fraser is gifted at peeling through the layers of fact, fiction, and myth, and engagingly demonstrates how our notion of history is shaped by both what happened and what we believed happened”