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 and a sharp eye for

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 and a sharp eye forDescription 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

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