Forgotten Heroines: the Diaries of Ysabel Birkbeck
Marsali Taylor
Works of: Non-fiction
In 1916, Scottish surgeon Dr Elsie Inglis and an all-women group of nurses, orderlies and ambulance drivers set out for the Romanian Front. The aim of the Scottish Women’s Hospital was to provide front-line care for wounded soldiers. Ysabel Birkbeck was one of the ambulance drivers, and her lively account describes the long journey across Russia, her first experience of driving the wounded, coming under fire, riding out for dinner with a General in the front-line trench, two retreats, winter in Odessa and returning home via the March Revolution in St Petersburg. Her diary is illustrated with her own snapshots and drawings.
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Death in a Shetland Lane
A Shetland Winter Mystery
The Shetland Sea Murders
Death from a Shetland cliff
Death on a Shetland Isle
Death in Shetland Waters
The Shetland Poisonings (formerly Ghosts of the Vikings)
Footsteps in the Dew
Grave of a Shetland Sailor (formerly The Body in the Bracken)
The Story of Busta House
The Shetland Night Killings (formerly A Handful of Ash)
Buried in a Shetland Tomb (formerly The Trowie Mound Murders)
Death on a Shetland Longship (formerly Death on a Longship)
Women’s Suffrage in Shetland
A Case Full of Crime
Wishing on a Star
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