World War I History PDF EPUB

Yashka

First published: 1919
Pages: 254

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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. Free to read as a PDF and EPUB.

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Maria Bochkareva

Bochkareva walked out of a violent marriage and a Siberian laundry and petitioned the Tsar directly for permission to enlist in 1914, which she was granted. She was wounded repeatedly and decorated.

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