Military History Subject Guide

Biographies

Amazons to Fighter Pilots:  A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women.  Ed. by Reina Pennington.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003. (Ref. U52 .A44 2003 )

Axelrod, Alan, and Charles Phillips. The Macmillan Dictionary of Military Biography. New York: Macmillan USA, 1998. (Ref. U51 .A94 1998 )

Dever, John Patrick and Maria C. Dever.   Women and the Military:  Over 100 Notable Contributors, Historic to Contemporary.   Jefferson, N.C.:  McFarland & Co., 1995.  (Perkins  355.22082 D491 W872 1995)

Dupuy, Trevor N., Curt Johnson and David L. Bongard. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography. N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1992. (Ref. U51 .D87 1992 )

Keegan, John. Who's Who in Military History: From 1453 to the Present Day. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 1996. (Ref. U51 .K43 1996 )

Windrow, Martin and Francis K. Mason. The Concise Dictionary of Military Biography: Two Hundred of the Most Significant Names in Land Warfare, 10th-20th Century. Rev. ed. London: Windrow & Greene, 1990. (Library Service Center   355.0092 W765 C744 1990)

For other biographical sources, check the bibliographies and guides to the literature, and the catalog, (using the name of the individual as the subject heading, or subject headings such as United States--Armed forces--Biography). See also the Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Ref. Index Area), and its electronic version  (see History Databases).