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An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army
An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army | Flora Sandes
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A somewhat bizarre first-person account of Flora Sandes‘s first years with the Serbian Army. In 1915, the British nurse returns to Serbia to re-join a Red Cross Hospital. Unable to get through, she joins an ambulance, then asks if she can move with the regiment and one thing leads to another!

She‘s an English woman of a certain class, background and status (nothing is a problem) but is self-aware enough to see (generally after the event)

rockpools when she‘s wrong, out-of-order, or learning. And she has a genuine appreciation for the Serbian people she‘s working alongside.

In a nutshell, it‘s all very strange! I‘d be interested to read a biography of her at some point. I will also come back and read something by a Serbian author, but the translation in my original choice was just painful, and library access is limited right now.

#readaroundtheworld #Serbia
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Cinfhen Wonderful review 4y
Caroline2 Wow! What an interesting sounding woman. 🤔 4y
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BookwormM Sounds interesting 👍 4y
rockpools In the interest of finishing a couple of challenges this year, I‘m belatedly adding this one to #NonFiction2021 #SomethingByAWoman and #Booked2021 #COVIDHEROES because Flora was actually a nurse, and her account starts working with ambulances @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft 4y
Cinfhen 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 4y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Sounds interesting, and great choice! 4y
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