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John P. Dever, Maria C. Dever.Women and the Military: Over 100 Notable Contributors, Historic to Contemporary. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1995. 163 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-89950-976-1.
Reviewed by Reina Pennington (University of South Carolina)
Published on H-Minerva (January, 1998)
Military Women: A Story Still Untold
Millions of women throughout history have provided logistical and medical care for armies, served in the military as leaders and administrators, defended their countries against enemies, and have even driven tanks and flown fighter aircraft in combat. Yet one searches in vain to find their collected biographies; there is no scholarly "Who's Who" of military women. The field so far has been left to popular writers like the authors reviewed here.
John and Maria Dever's book, Women and the Military: Over 100 Notable Contributors, Historic to Contemporary, has an admirable goal but unfortunately falls far short of its mark. This brief book is lightweight, literally and figuratively, and of little use to scholars or serious students of military or women's history.
John Dever, a veteran Army reservist, was a faculty member at the U.S. Army Area Intelligence School at Fort Bragg, N.C.; his wife Maria is a high school teacher. Their resear
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It looked more like a decadent hotel than a scientific institute. The Soviet Union’s Bureau of Applied Botany was housed in a grand, three-story building just off the majestic St. Isaac’s Square in Leningrad (modern-day St. Petersburg). It had dozens of elegant windows and a cream-colored façade with arches and pillars. It screamed high tea and starched collars.
But that appearance was misleading. Starting in the 1920s the bureau established itself as the premier institution in the world for studying and protecting the global heritage of human food crops—essentially, it was the Fort Knox of agriculture.
The bureau’s mission to protect the world’s food supply sprang from its director, biologist Nikolai Vavilov. Born in Russia in 1887, Vavilov witnessed some terrible force—drought, insects, disease, brutal cold—lay waste to crops across the country every few years during his childhood. One famine alone killed 400,000 people.
As he got older, Vavilov became obsessed with stopping famines and determined that the best solution involved the new field of genetics. In short, he reasoned that modern domesticated crops were susceptible to natural disasters because they were frighteningly inbred and lacked the genetic diversity to withstand hardships. Wild