Daughters of the Dragon: Vietnam's First War of Independence and the Legend of the Trung Sisters

In the spring of 40 CE, two noblewomen raised a flag at the confluence of two rivers and changed the course of Vietnamese history. What followed was the first great Vietnamese war of independence — a three-year enterprise that expelled the Han empire's administration from an entire province, established a functioning independent state under a female monarch, and deployed more than seventy women in...