Book description
This book tells the extraordinary story of Maria Botchkareva “Yashka”, a peasant girl grown up in Siberia, who at the outbreak of First World War asked and obtained to enlist in the Russian army: not to be one of the many Red Cross nurses, but to be a soldier and…
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We knew that Russia mobilized more female volunteers in World War I than any other country. But we are so grateful that Maria Bochkareva, a semi-literate peasant and the founder of the first Russian female death battalion, took the time to share her story with a reporter. It sheds dazzling light on soldiers’ experiences on the Eastern Front. We had often marveled at this untrained woman’s success as a combatant and a commander.
The book’s first chapters show that she learned grit and toughness from living with an abusive husband, resisting the sexual advances of a Siberian governor, and standing…
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