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Kirsten Holmstedt's Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq spotlighted the female soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen who serve in Iraq; it also extinguished forever the fiction that U.S. women aren't fighting on the front lines in the Middle East. The Girls Come Marching Home isn't just the obligatory follow-up to that award-winning book. It is a standalone tribute to the courage, resilience, but also the hardships experienced by women warriors on their return to the States. As in her previous book (which is now in paperback), Holmstedt profiles individual women in the services, describing how these ordinary women cope with the extraordinary circumstance of combat and its aftermath. This isn't a pro-war book or an anti-war book; it's a book about real women who put their lives on the line and came back to tell about it.