Yashka
by Maria Bochkareva
“She traded a peasant's life for a soldier's rifle and changed the course of history.”
From the depths of Siberian exile to the front lines of the Great War, Maria Bochkareva’s memoir recounts her rise as the legendary commander of the Women's Battalion of Death. Witness the collapse of an empire and the fire of revolution through the eyes of a woman who defied every social boundary to fight for her country.
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