Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives
 

Under the Sabers: The Unwritten Code of Army Wives

by Tanya Biank

Under the Sabers is a groundbreaking narrative detailing the complex personal challenges Army wives face, presenting a provocative new look at Army life. Tanya Biank goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life and shows what it is really like to be an Army wife—from hauling furniture off the rental truck by yourself at a new duty station when your husband is in... (read more)

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marst56
  • Rated 1 stars

Not the best written book ever, but entertaining none the less. The women seem to fall into the normal clichés for military wives: the poor enlisted spouse, the beaten SF spouse and the snotty officer's wife. I think she was trying to show that there are characters behind the clichés, but I could have done without the stereotypes. Army wives run the gamut of personalities and I am tired of these 3. What about the well educated CPA enlisted wife, or the easy going officer's wife (they exist...

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  • Rated 4 stars
 

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