About this book
The only Western woman to enlist as a soldier in the First World War, the Englishwoman Flora Sandes became a heroine and a media sensation when she fought for the Serbian Army and pursued a distinguished career in its ranks. This account charts her incredible story: her tomboyish childhood in genteel Victorian England, her mission to Serbia as a Red Cross volunteer and subsequent military enrolment, her celebrity lecture tours, her marriage to a fellow officer, her survival in a Gestapo prison during the Second World War and her final years in Suffolk.A fascinating character of her times and an inspiration to women the world over, Flora Sandes is brought to life and restored to her rightful place in history by this biography, compiled with the help of her family, and using hitherto unpublished private papers and photographs.
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Table of contents
- PROLOGUE
- PART ONE
- CHAPTER 1: Departure
- CHAPTER 2: Antebellum
- CHAPTER 3: Kragujevac
- CHAPTER 4: Typhus
- CHAPTER 5: Invasion
- PART TWO
- CHAPTER 6: Retreat
- CHAPTER 7: Coast
- CHAPTER 8: Corfu
- CHAPTER 9: Monastir
- CHAPTER 10: Wounded
- CHAPTER 11: The Front
- CHAPTER 12: Canteens
- CHAPTER 13: Breakthrough
- CHAPTER 14: Spanish Influenza
- CHAPTER 15: Hungary
- CHAPTER 16: Travels
- CHAPTER 17: Frontier Troops
- PART THREE
- CHAPTER 18: Interbellum
- CHAPTER 19: Occupation
- CHAPTER 20: "Folly’s End"
- AFTERWORD
- EPILOGUE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- NOTES AND REFERENCES
- INDEX
- ILLUSTRATIONS
