 In 1989, "Not So Quiet..." was republished to acclaim by The Feminist Press, New York, and later by Virago in the UK.The Feminist Press edition included a discursive afterword by Jane Marcus, which explained much of the story of the book's origins, but the back cover describes it as 'a scathing firsthand account of war from the point of view of women actively engaged in it', which may have allowed some readers to overestimate its authenticity.Since then there have been notable critical accounts of the novel by Angela K. Smith in "The Second Battlefield