English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army

In 1915, a British woman crossed into war-torn Serbia and did something no woman had done before: she enlisted as a soldier. Flora Sandes began as a St. John Ambulance volunteer, but when the Serbian army found itself hemorrhaging men, she volunteered for the infantry and was accepted. She fought in the trenches, led men into battle, and survived a serious wound that left her hospitalized in Corfu. This memoir is her firsthand account of that impossible journey from Englishwoman to Serbian sergeanta woman who answered the call to war when the world insisted she stay home and stitch bandages. Her voice is blunt, brave, and utterly without self-pity. She does not ask for your sympathy; she demands your respect. Nearly a century later, her memoir remains a fierce testament to what women are capable of when no one is watchingexcept history, which had no choice but to look.