With the Armies of the Tsar: A Nurse at the Russian Front in War and Revolution 1914-1918

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This is a compelling firsthand account of an extraordinary womans experiences with the Russian Army in World War I. Florence Farmborough was a 27-year-old Englishwoman employed as a governess to a family in Moscow when war broke out. She volunteered with the Red Cross and found herself at the forefront of military events in Poland Austria and Rumania. She witnessed the effects of Lenin and Trotskys bloody revolution and of Russias collapse into chaos and civil war. Illustrated with nearly fifty of Farmboroughs stunning photographs With the Armies of the Tsar is a remarkable chronicle of courage discipline and fortitude in the face of the warfare and political upheaval that destroyed Tsarist Russia and created the Soviet empire.