Author: Lieutenant Nowosielski, Sophie (Nowosielska, Zofja)
Title: In the Hurricane of War. Memoirs of a Woman Soldier
Description: S. l. (Louisville, Kentucky), By the author, 1929. First Edition. First edition; 7 1/2 x 5; pp. [7]; 10-124; beige pictorial wraps; illustrated from photographs, including frontis; a tiny nick to tail of spine; mild creasing to corners; n about very good condition. An uncommon memoir, it told the story of a young Polish woman, who served during WWI. Sophie was a tomboy from a wealthy, well-educated family, who, inspired by her grandfather's tales of 19th-century Polish heroines and by her father and brother being called to serve in the Austrian Army in 1914, ran away from home to join a Polish legion fighting for the reunification of Poland. She would be promptly send back home to her mother, but would eventually serve in the Polish Women's Voluntary Legion as a Lieutenant. Very good .

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