Yashka My Life as Peasant, Officer and Exile: the Recollections of the Founder and Commander of the Russian Women's Battalion of Death During the First World War Jewish History with over 30 dreadnought battleships

with over 30 dreadnought battleships or battlecruisers

working tirelessly to care for wounded and sick soldiers from the battlefields of Gallipoli and the Western Front

by Michael Howard

this collection offers a choice selection of full-page color reproductions accompanied by detailed captions

Yashka My Life as Peasant, Officer and Exile: the Recollections of the Founder and Commander of the Russian Women's Battalion of Death During the First World War Jewish History with over 30 dreadnought battleshipsDescription By Maria Botchkareva Paperback The modern 'Joan of Arc' of the Great War and Russian Revolution This the story of an astonishing life told in her own words. Maria Botchkareva (whose nickname was Yashka) was not only a soldier in the Russian Army who fought in combat during the First World War, she was also the first woman to command a military unit in the Russian Army. Born a peasant, Yashka left home at 16 years old, coerced into