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Soldier Girls is a 1981 documentary film by Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill (who were a married couple at the time of the filming), shot in fourteen weeks in Fort Gordon, Georgia, about several women training in the US army.
Soldier Girls by Helen Thorpe is a non-fiction journalistic look into the lives of three military woman over a twelve-year period. They prepare to leave for war, come back to their lives in the states, and two of them ship out once more.
Aug 8, 2014 · Helen Thorpe’s comprehensively researched new book, “Soldier Girls,” follows the lives of three women from enlistment in the Indiana National Guard through deployment...
Jul 1, 2015 · The following is from Helen Thorpe’s Soldier Girls which follows the lives of three women over twelve years on their paths to the military, overseas to combat, and back home again.
Jul 7, 2015 · “A raw, intimate look at the impact of combat and the healing power of friendship” (People): the lives of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the effect of their military service on their personal lives and families— named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly.
Aug 10, 2014 · In her new book, Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War, Helen Thorpe follows the lives of Desma Brooks, Michelle Fischer and Debbie Helton for 12 years.
“What Thorpe accomplishes in Soldier Girls is something far greater than describing the experience of women in the military. The book is a solid chunk of American history — detailing the culture’s failing, resilience and progress… Thorpe triumphs.” (The New York Times Book Review)
