A Fine Brother: The Life of Captain Flora Sandes
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| Title: | A Fine Brother: The Life of Captain Flora Sandes |
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| Description: | 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restored to her rightful place in history by this biography, compiled with the help of her family, and using hitherto unpublished private papers and photographs. |
| Authors: | Louise Miller |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Soldiers--Great Britain--Biography, Women soldiers--Great Britain--Biography, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Serbia, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Montenegro |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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restored to her rightful place in history by this biography, compiled with the help of her family, and using hitherto unpublished private papers and photographs.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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| ISBN: | 9781846882456 9780714545493 |
