The Civil war, which took place in Nigeria in 1967, cast devastating effects on the country’s economy and the inhabitants therein. Worthy of tremendous mention are the Igbo people otherwise known as Biafra, occupying the East of the Southern part of Nigeria. During the war, young men are conscripted into the Biafran Army in order to match up their Nigerian counterpart, and young women, including the married ones are raped. Using feminism as a theoretical framework, this paper sees Roses and Bullets as a novel, which Ezeigbo uses to portray the plight of women during the Civil war. The paper unravels the bleak condition of women, making them victims of the war. The paper discovers that though women are used for sexual gratification during the war, the novelist empowers them with built-in vitality, which enables them to rise up against all odds to fight for their survival. Thus, their strive for survival make them heroines of the novel.