This book tells the story of women in the First World War at the front line, under fire, and in combat. Meet the women who defied convention to fight for their country. Follow British Flora Sandes as she joins the Serbian Army and takes up a place in the rearguard of the Iron Regiment in the retreat from the Bulgarian advance. Stow away with Dorothy Lawrence as she smuggles herself to Paris, steals a uniform and heads to the Front. Enlist in Russia's all-female 'Battalion of Death' alongside peasant and princess alike. Through the letters, diaries and memoirs of women who were members of organisations such as the US Army Signal Corps, the Canadian Army Medical Corps, the WRAF, WRNS and many others, we learn what life was like for them on the front and discover the courage of the women who took up arms.
