manual for stable sergeants 1917
General:
Name: manual for stable sergeants 1917
Format: pdf
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Book:
Title: The Lovely Sergeant
Author: Alan Burgess
Language: angielski
Year: 1964
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Companion Book Club
ISBN: N/A
Total pages: 244
Description:
"Without the stiffening and buckram of his regimental pride, the cocksure male tended to blink uncertainly, to look around in astonishment, to bluster, and occasionally even to weep."
This unconventional view of the soldier in battle comes from a woman, but not from a woman waiting at the fireside. It comes from Flora Sandes, an English clergyman’s daughter, who by amazing sequence of circumstances became a soldier herself – in fact, a sergeant in the Serbian Army during one of the bitterest campaigns of the First World War.
Even by modern standards what this persistent Edwardian miss achieved was fantastic. The rifle replaced the croquet mallet, and under appalling conditions she learned the grim realities of mountain warfare. Later she was wounded in battle and was awarded the army’s most coveted award – the Kara George Star.
To her comrades Flora was an enigma, a source of strength and, above all, an attractive, intelligent woman who represented one of their Allies. The men adored her, particularly her lieutenant whom she loved in turn, but who was killed before his country was liberated.
In "The Lovely Sergeant", Alan Burgess displays his uncanny gift for moving us to the heart and, aided by his heroine’s letters and diaries, he makes us feel that we, too, have actually shared her remarkable, real-life adventures.
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