A Look at Women on the Battlefield

The Westerly Sun

Mystic native's book covers the experience of female soldiers in Iraq.

"You aren't safe anywhere in Iraq. Whether you're at an airbase in Fallujah, Baghdad, or on a convoy crossing the country from one city to the next. That's what's different about this war. Iraq is the battlefield. No matter where you are in Iraq, you're in danger. You're in harm's way. You're in combat."

Those are the words of Kirsten Holmstedt, author of Band of Sisters – the nonfiction account of women at war that took her several years to write between her commitments to a full-time job and part-time pursuit of a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Nonfiction Writing.

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