SCOTLAND LIDDELL (R., Lt. in the Russian Army)
"Sestra" (Sister): Sketches from the Russian Front.
1st Ed., viii+244pp. H&S.
1917
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Robert Scotland Liddell (1885-1972) was a British reporter & photographer for The Sphere. He arrived in Petrograd in the spring of 1915 to cover events on the Russian Front & soon moved to Warsaw, where he served as a member of the Group of Polish Red Cross Volunteers with the Russian army (with the rank of Lieutenant). Here he records, in a combination of prose & reported speech, both his experiences & his admiration for nurses alongside whom he worked. Orig. brown cloth, titled in black, little rubbed & worn, generally VG & rare. See illustration on our website.
£85
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