Desert Dogs: The Marines of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Strebe’s first book, was published in May 2004 by MBI. (ISBN 0275994341). While researching the book, Strebe drew upon her experiences as managing editor of The Georgia Guardian when she accompanied the U.S. Army’s 3^rd Infantry Division from Fort Stewart, Georgia on deployment to the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Desert Thunder in 1998. Based out of a cabal deep in the Kuwaiti desert near the Iraqi border, Strebe, along with photographer Russ Bryant, documented the daily lives of the 3^rd Infantry Division’s 3^rd Battalion, 69^th Armor Regiment.

 

Strebe has written articles on the subject of her historical research in Russian Life and Flight Journal magazines. She is also a contributor to the Encyclopedia of World War II: A Political, Social and Military History, published by ABC-CLIO in 2004.

 

A member of the American Historical Association and the Coordinating Council for Women in History, Strebe is also a member of the World War Two Studies Association, International Women’s Air & Space Museum, the Western Association of Women Historians, Military Writers Society of America, Women in Aviation, International, and The Authors Guild. She is also a charter member of the National WASP World War II Museum.

 

Strebe lives in San Diego, California with her husband and two children.

    As a professional journalist for more than a decade, Amy Goodpaster Strebe has worked as managing editor of several newspapers around the country, as well as contributed numerous freelance articles to both national and international publications.

 

Born in La Jolla, California and raised in San Diego, Strebe graduated from the University of San Diego High School. After spending a semester studying in London and traveling extensively throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union, she earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

 

While earning a graduate degree in modern European history from San Jose State University, Strebe completed her master’s thesis on the American Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and the Soviet airwomen of World War II, a subject she continues to research and write about today. 

 

Strebe’s latest book, titled Flying for Her Country: The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of World War II, was published in August 2007 by Praeger Security International (PSI), an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group. (ISBN 0275994341).

 

 

Amy Goodpaster Strebe

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