Thomas Cardoza

Intrepid Women covers the fascinating but largely unknown story of women who served (and fought) with French army combat units throughout the 18th and 19th century. Whether you are a historian, a student, a reenactor, a collector, or just a person interested in history, there is something new and interesting for you here.

I am currently a professor in the Humanities Department at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. I earned a bachelor's degree from California State University, Chico, a master's degree in military history from Purdue University, and a doctorate in European history from the University of California, Santa Barbara. I've lived and worked in France, and I have some facility with English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Latin.

I've contributed to a number of academic projects over the years, including James Marten's Children and War: an Anthology and two anthologies from Oxford University Press:

Gender, War, and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, edited by Karen Hagemann, Jane Rendall, and Gisela Mettele (2010).

Gender, War and the Western World since 1600, edited by Karen Hagemann, Stefan Dudink and Sonya O. Rose (2018).

These are also available for purchase here at Amazon, but for its own arcane reasons, the company will not allow me to add them to my author page, even though I helped write them.

I recently translated the memoirs of a boy soldier of the Napoleonic era:

https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Soldier-Napoleons-Army-Napoleonic/dp/1979883629/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515271208&sr=8-1&keywords=jacques+chevillet

It is part of a new series of translations of primary sources from the Napoleonic era that have never appeared in English until now. The New Napoleonic Memoir Series will add one or two new titles each year, so watch for these on Amazon. I am currently working on Volume 2, and while the exact author and title are a surprise, it is the amazing memoirs of a French cavalry officer. As I write this, he is currently struggling to fight his way out of Russia in 1812, but he's hit a small snag: the only bridge over the Berezina River is under Russian artillery fire and strewn with bodies, drenched in slippery blood, and full of angry, desperate stragglers who will do anything to get across. Check out Volume Two later this year to find out how that all ends.

Please feel free to contact me with questions, comments, or criticisms: newnapoleonseries@gmail.com