An in-depth look at the All American Girls Baseball League at its teams, players, coaches, chaperones, etc. This book adds a lot of information to “A League of Their Own,” showing how women from all over the country (and Canada) came together to play baseball and what they did when the games were over.
A look at Joan of Arc and Yolande of Aragon, how these two women’s lives were intertwined even though they never met. While Yolande, the Queen of Sicily, championed the dauphine against his enemies in the 100 Years War, and used her money, powerful allies, and army (both soldiers and spies) to put him on the throne of France. However it took a peasant
girl, Joan, to bring the people together and complete the job.
A look at all the highs and lows, though the biggest low was yet to come, that befell the United States on the eve of the Great Depression. Looking at the people and events that not only shaped the nation but set the ground to fall once the economy they helped to build up fell apart.
A Wicked War by Amy S. Greenberg (368 pages)
A deep dive into the Mexican-American War, a war forged probably on false pretenses for no real reason other than an expansionist government wanted to flex on a weaker neighbor. The title is a reference to a quote made following the war by U.S. Grant that was echoed before, during, and after by many critics. This book shows the action not only in Mexico but in Washington D.C. where the bullets were fewer but the battle no less destructive
