Through three dramatic stories that span the war, McCurry brings us close to the half of the population often left out of these histories. Women were spies, partisans, saboteurs, they fought for freedom from slavery, they fought to reconstruct lives after the war. McCurry is the winnder of the Frederick Douglass Prize, Merlse Curti Prize, Avery O. Craven Award, and Willie Lee Rose Prize for a previous work, as well as other prizes for this and other works. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2019. List $21.00. NEW. $18.00