Flora Sandes is one of those inspirational women that I like to tell my daughters about. She was the only British woman to officially serve as a soldier in WWI. She started out as a nurse, but circumstances led her to end up as part of a retreat where she became a part of the army.
You kind of get thrown into the deep end right from the beginning. She doesn't address how she ended up in Serbia, her background or what motivated her to be a nurse in the first place. Overall, you're on a journey with her. The descriptions are well done, and the conditions make you cringe.
The best way I can describe this book is as a cross-section of her life. Since this was written in 1916, of course, Flora didn't know what else was going to happen. With a bit of research...boom! She wrote another book in 1927 called The Autobiography of a Woman Soldier. I might have to track down a physical copy or put it on my list to look into in about four years when it should be eligible for public domain. Good Book!
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