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Первая мировая война: британские героини Сербии
The First World War: British heroines of Serbia

Author(s): N. Ju. Zabelina
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: First World War; Serbia; Great Britain; women; volunteers

Summary/Abstract: During the First World War Serbia’s sufferings found a broad response among the English people. British women took an active part in the volunteer movement. They orga¬nized hospitals in Serbia, they worked as doctors and nurses to fight against epidemics. Some of them fell victim. Flora Sandes, at first also working as a nurse, decided to join Ser-bian forces and rose to become an officer. To this day Serbs esteem the exploits of these British women, which had become a part of their collective memory

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 91-98
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Russian