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Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women. Ed. by Reina Pennington and Robin Higham. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2003. 2 vols, alkaline $175 (ISBN O313-29197-7).
From Adelaide of Turin through Ilona Zrinyi, Amazons to Fighter Pilots documents the military contributions of some three hundred women combatants from antiquity to the present. Group entries ("Algerian-French War, Women In") and numbered entries ("46th Tamansky Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment") supplement individual profiles, adding to the dictionary's impressive chronological and geographical coverage. All entries are signed and each contributor is identified. A short bibliography of sources accompanies each article. Black-and-white photographs illustrate some entries, while others are enhanced by sidebars containing statistics, quotations, or other pieces of information. The dictionary concludes with an especially useful 125-page timeline listing women, date of activity, and military event in...