Here's a good selection of mini-biographies of women we've never heard of ... or mostly so! Thankfully some of them are already getting proper recognition and biographies of them have been published. The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II, by Major General Mari K. Eder was an inspiring (and sometimes chilling) read of women who were spies, who were part of the French Resistance, flew planes, escaped from concentration camps, or helped build code breaking machines. Many were told to never, ever, speak of what they'd done ... and they didn't ... much of this information is just now coming to light some fifty years after the fact (when it could be opened to the public).

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