This book explores the experiences and contributions of British women performing active service across the Eastern Front in Serbia, Russia and Romania during the First World War, focusing on representation of that experience though a range of written records.

Introduction: The road East
1. Travel writers and romantics
2. Early days: the typhus colony and other stories
3. Role call? The female body and gender Identity on the Eastern Front
4. Waiting for the Allies: prisoners of war
5. Domestic survival strategies: the Serbian Retreat, 1915
6. The road to revolution: Russia 1916-17
7. The aftermath and the legacy
Select bibliography
Index

Angela Smith is a freelance writer/editor and Executive Director Emeritus of the Writers' League of Texas.