They Knew How to Die. Being a Narrative of the Personal Experiences of a Red Cross Sister on the Russian Front.

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An unflinching account of nursing on the Russian Front, the narrative running from the advance into Prussia in October 1914 to the February Revolution of 1917. The author was the daughter of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, an anti-Bolshevik activist and writer, who took her family to Britain in the wake of the Revolution - Botcharsky dedicates the work to her stepfather, the linguist Harold Williams.Her co-author, the improbably-named Florida Pier, had married a Scot and moved to Britain from the US - establishing herself as a playwright. By the time of this work, she had divorced James Scott-Maxwell, and was about to embark on the next phase of her career - as a Jungian psychoanalyst.