Forgotten Heroines: the diaries of Ysabel Birkbeck, Fiction_Gift_Guide Reading the Bible on the

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Forgotten Heroines: the diaries of Ysabel Birkbeck, Fiction_Gift_Guide Reading the Bible on theIn August 1916, 75 intrepid women set out from Liverpool for the Russian Front. They were a unit of the Scottish Women's Hospital, led by Dr Elsie Inglis. They would form two front line medical units, attached to the Serbian army. This diarist, Ysabel Birkbeck, was one of the ambulance drivers, and she recounts their work and fun with honesty and humour: the long journey by ship, train and barge to Medjidea, the work of moving injured men across