1st 1974. Pp. 422, (ii). Frontispiece, 44 Illustrations, 4 Maps. A 21-year-old Englishwoman Engaged As A Companion/ Governess To A Family In Kiev. When War Broke Out In 1914, She Volunteered For Red Cross Work, And After Training At A Hospital In Moscow, Was Sent To The Polish Front With A Flying Column Of Russian Troops. There, And Later In Austria And Rumania, She Observed, And Recorded With Her Plate Camera And In Her Diary, The Chaos, Devastation, And Bitterness Of War Complicated By Russias Civil Upheavals. News Of Front-line Reactions To The Murder Of Rasputin, The Abdication Of The Tsar, The Accession Of Kerensky, And Finally The Fullscale Bloody Revolution Of Lenin And Trotsky And The Political Revolution Ceased To Be Bloodless. She Finally Made Her Escape Across Siberia To Vladivostock And Then To America. Remarkable And Rare Account. Ex Lib. Protected Binding. Good.