FORGOTTEN WARRIORS: A History of Women on the Front Line, by Sarah Percy (John Murray, $39.99)
PERIOD: The Real Story of Menstruation, by Kate Clancy (Princeton University Press, $57.99 hb)
After their country was invaded by Russia in 2014, the Ukrainian government decided to let more women into the military. A military gender-equality law in 2018 gave women the same rights as men in the army, allowing them to fight on the front line. This proved fortuitous – by the time Russia invaded again in 2022, Ukraine’s armed forces were flooded with highly motivated female recruits, and today they have proportionally more women serving than nearly any other country. (Interestingly, New Zealand is
