She led three countries on two separate continents in their fights for independence. She was a revolutionary, a wife and a mother. She was the original G.I. Jane in a man's world. Yet it's difficult to find even a passing mention of her in history books. Anita Garibaldi, the Brazilian-born wife of Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi, was the true driving force behind Italy's legendary unification movement in the 19th century. But, first, she led Garibaldi and her fellow gauchos in uprisings against high taxes in her native Brazil before moving on to Uruguay, where the pair and their growing legions defeated Argentinean dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas. Once in Italy, Anita - who, despite being pregnant and stricken with malaria - followed her husband into battle against the French and Austrian occupying forces. She proved to be among the most skilled guerrilla warriors. Anita fought until the end of her short life (28 years old), which ceased in the arms of her husband in a farmhouse on Italy's Adriatic coast. Mother of War is her remarkable story...a woman of fearless action at a time of global revolutionary fervor.