Women warlords : an illustrated military history of female warriors
"Women Warlords is the first book to reveal the reality of female military leadership in ancient and medieval warfare. It discovers true Amazon chieftains buried beneath the steppes of southern Russia and reconstructs their unique society in which women fought alongside men and could only marry when they had slain an enemy. It describes the last campaign of the African Amazons of Dahomey battling against the French in 1892, including rarely seen...