The Lovely Sergeant (1964) By Alan Burgess
 
The book tells the extraordinary true story of how an English clergyman's daughter came to serve in the Serbian army during one of the fiercest and most brutal campaigns of World War One.
 
It is written like a novel, and at least some of the comments about the heroine's emotions and thoughts must be speculation, but Burgess had access to and made full use of "a mass of papers" including lectures, diaries, letters, and albums accumulated by Sergeant-Major Flora Sandes about her time serving with the Serbian Army. The book is also illustrated with 15 contemporary photographs.
 
Sandes initially went to Serbia as a nurse but ended up as a soldier and served with great distinction, surviving being severely wounded, and going back to fight again with "half a blacksmith's shop" of metal fragments inside her. She was awarded the Kara George Star, which was the most coveted award in the Serbian Army.
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
223 Pages
In Good Condition