Women of action

Profiles sixteen women who played key roles in World War I, including spies, organizers, surgeons, nurses, soldiers, and journalists.

Presents the stories of twenty-two different women architects, engineers, and landscape designers, from the nineteenth century to the present. Profiles each woman and how their childhoods led them to become architects later in life.

Memoirs of World War II spy Pearl Witherington, a special agent with the British Special Operations Executive who worked and led the French Resistance. Describes Pearl's childhood in France, how she escaped in 1940, and how she parachuted back into her country in 1943 and became "Pauline," a cosmetic saleswoman who secretly transported messages for the Resistance.