Yashka
- Downloads
- Under 100
- First published
- 1919
- Pages
- 254
About this book
Maria Bochkareva was born into a poor Russian peasant family and endured beatings, forced labour, and two violent marriages before the First World War remade her life. This memoir, dictated to the journalist Isaac Don Levine, tells how she petitioned the Tsar himself for permission to enlist, fought and was wounded in the trenches, and in 1917 organized the famous Women's Battalion of Death. Her account moves from village misery and a spell spent following an exiled lover into Siberia toward the chaos of revolution, where her loyalty to the old army left her stranded between the Bolsheviks and the collapsing front. It is a plain, forceful record of an extraordinary woman who fought as hard as any soldier of her generation.
Contents
About the author
More from this genre
See all- B Back of the Front in FranceBack of the Front in France
- W The West Riding Territorials in the Great WarThe West Riding Territorials in the Great War
- L Lawrence and the ArabsLawrence and the Arabs
- I In the World WarIn the World War
- 2 The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's)The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's)
- A America's War for HumanityAmerica's War for Humanity
Books like this one
Discussion
No comments yet. Share a thought, a question or a favourite passage.
Copyright concern? Read our DMCA policy
Read or download
Public domain book This work is in the public domain and free of copyright. Anyone may read, download and share it.
- PDF 1.5 MB
- EPUB 949 KB
Downloads start right away. How to open EPUB on your phone
Book facts
- Author
- Maria Bochkareva
- First published
- 1919
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 254
- Language
- English
- Genre
- World War I History
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online