The Stone Frigate

The Royal Military College's First Female Cadet Speaks Out

De: Kate Armstrong

Narrado por: Kate Armstrong

A memoir from the first female cadet admitted to the Royal Military College of Canada.

Kate Armstrong was an ordinary young woman eager to leave an abusive childhood behind her when she became the first female cadet admitted to the Royal Military College of Canada. As she struggled for survival in the ultimate boys’ club, she called on her fierce and humourous spirit to push back against the whims of a domineering and patriarchal organization. Later in life, feeling unfulfilled in her post-military career, she realized that finding her true path forward meant she had to go back to the beginning and revisit the truth of what she had experienced all those years ago.

©2019 Kate Armstrong (P)2020 Heraclon Publishing Canada

Excellent

Over the years I have read a number of memoirs of women who were in the pioneer class at one of the military colleges. This memoir is about the first group of women to enter Canada’s Royal Military College.

The book is well written but is dependent on the author’s memory. I noted the book is a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writers Prize in Nonfiction. All the books have the same theme about the anger of some men when women enter what they perceive as their exclusive domain. The author points out at the end of the book the attitude of many men has changed over the years, but the problem of rape in the military needs to be solved. I saw in the news that the first women graduated from the special combat commando school had obtained her Green Beret.

The book is seven hours and forty-six minutes. The author does a good job narrated her own book.