Minerva's Bookshelf

The MINERVA Center, Inc. began its book publication program in 1993. We currently have five titles in print and plan to expand our book list as soon as funds become available. Many outstanding manuscripts in the field of women's military studies have trouble finding mainstream publishers. Feminist presses dislike military topics, and military presses dislike women in military roles.

Although MINERVA cannot publish as many books as we would like to, the Center supports writers, small presses and self-publishers working on manuscripts dealing with women in war or women and the military.

Wanda E. Pomykalski,
The Horror Trains: A Polish Woman Veteran's Memoir of World War II
ISBN: 0-9634895-4-2
$50 

An inspiring story of patriotism, courage, and endurance. After enduring captivity in Soviet prisons, Wanda became a woman soldier, assigned as clerk typist with the Polish forces in Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Egypt and Italy where she served just 40 kilometers from the front lines at the historic battle for Monte Cassino in May 1944

Linda Grant De Pauw,
Baptism of Fire (Pasadena, Md.: The MINERVA Center, 1993)
ISBN 096348950X
$15 

If you've longed for a novel with a woman Navy hero in the tradition of Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey, you will love this swashbuckling tale.
Telepathic aliens, pirates, epidemic diseases, and chronic conflict amont members of the impressed crew complicate the challenge of command in space as a young woman officer confronts her Baptism of Fire.

Lauren Cook Burgess, ed.,
An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, Alias Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers (Pasadena, Md.: The MINERVA Center, 1994)
ISBN 0963489518
$25

A unique collection of letters from a woman who served as a Union soldier covering her experiences from her enlistment to her death during the Red River campaign in 1864.

C. Kay Larson,
'Til I Come Marching Home: A Brief History of American Women in World War II (Pasadena, Md.: The MINERVA Center, 1995)
ISBN 0963489526
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Donna M. Dean,
Warriors Without Weapons: The Victimization of Military Women
ISBN: 0-9634895-3-4
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As the extent of abuse of military women is finally coming to public attention, Dr. Dean's anguished voice reflects agony and rage as well as intellectual analysis and information. Her book is a wounded healer's gift to traumatized women veterans, to their therapists, and to the friends and families.

When you order our books directly from us, you are helping to support the work of the MINERVA Center.

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The Minerva Center, Inc.
20 Granada Road
Pasadena, MD 21122
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