The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto by Elizabeth Hyman is a rigorously documented, emotionally lucid history of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the kashariyot (Jewish women couriers), and Holocaust resistance … Read more
If you’ve ever been told to smile through exhaustion or “keep up appearances,” The Mad Wife shows the hidden bill of that performance—on bodies, marriages, neighborhoods, and minds. It solves … Read more
The Girls of Atomic City fills a startling gap: it explains how ordinary young women—secretaries, operators, janitors—became the backbone of the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, turning anonymous labor into … Read more