The Warrior Queens Paperback by Antonia Fraser

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Canada (2009-01-27)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 424 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780143171355
• Item Weight: 408.24 grams
• Dimensions: 8.25 x 5.34 x 1.16 cm

How does a woman take on the reins of military and political power? Having obtained power, how does she hang on to it? And how do the male contemporaries of a remarkable "warrior queen"feel about her? Starting with Boadicea, the Celtic queen who led a bloody uprising against the Romans, and ending with India Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, and Golda Meir, the "iron ladies"of recent times, Antonia Fraser tells the story of how remarkable women wield power.

About the Author

Antonia Fraser is the author of many internationally bestselling historical works, including Love and Louis XIV, Mary Queen of Scots, and Marie Antoinette, which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola. She is also the author of two memoirs, Must You Go? and My History. She has received the Wolfson History Prize, the 2000 Norton Medlicott Medal from Britain's Historical Association, and the Enid McLeod Franco-British Society Literary Prize. Fraser was made a Dame for services to literature in 2011.