title: Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics (Women of Action)
author:  Kathryn J. Atwood 
description: Gr 6 UpIn this collective biography, Atwood chronicles the wartime exploits of 16 distinctive women from the United States, Europe, and Australia. The book is well balanced, covering women from the Central and Allied powers. Content is organized by the type of job the women performedand there were many: resisters and spies, medical personnel, soldiers, and journalists. Their great contributions are made more vivid with Atwood's engaging narrative. Shepoints out that while there were ideological, social, and economic differences among the women, there was also a commonality uniting them: patriotism. Readers get an idea of the intensity of these women's fervors through the quotes from diaries, letters, and interviews. Gabrielle Petit, a young woman who worked as a spy for Belgium, wrote in a letter, "My country! I did not think enough of it! I almost ignored it. I did not see that I loved her. But since [the enemies] torment her, the monsters, I see her everywhere. I breathe her in the streets of the city, in the shadow of our palaceshe lives in me, I live in her. I will die for her singing." Woven throughout the stories is the larger history of the war itselfthe causes, battles won and lost, and outcomes. Occasional black-and-white archival photographs, especially those depicting the women, add interest and immediacy.Jennifer Prince, Buncombe County Public Libraries, NC
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  TERMS OF SURVIVAL
  
    
  
  BY DON PENDLETON
  
    
  
  To the UN peacekeepers. God keep.
  
    
  
  PROLOGUE
  
    
  
  "Stop that girl!" Nerve frayed from an all-night stint reconning for snipers
  io the steamy jungle surrounding the port city of the tinyd African nation of
  Walukagi, Sergeant Tyrell Craigie of the U.s. Army brought up his M-16 in a
  purely defensive maneuver and waved his team into partial qover against a
  boarded-over store.
  
    
  
  Bullets had taken thje windows out a long time ago, and black soot showed the
  effects of firebombing. "She's a damn thief! Stop her!
  
    
  
  was Craig @.ence looked across the war-tom street as he flicked the safety off
  the assault rifle.
  
    
  
  Cape Anansi's citizens were already making their way clear of the situation,
  fading into every shadow and gap between the bullet-scarred tilde uddings.
  Ant- or nine-year-old girl wearing a faded pink dress a d no shoes darted from
  in front of a parked British jeep and raced across the narrow street wi