I Am Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles - Women of the Resistance in World War One

I Am Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles: Women of the Resistance in World War One



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2024 | English | B0C6R7ZWS7 | EPUB | 318 pages | 28.5 MB

‘A thrilling narrative that creates an extraordinary picture of female resistance’ The Lady
‘Fascinating’ Kavita Puri, BBC History Magazine
‘A fierce, intense picture of this aspect of the war . . . it will stay with me’ Elizabeth Buchan, author of Two Women in Rome

On the evening of 31 March 1916, a 23-year-old woman was led from her prison cell in occupied Brussels. She wore a long blue coat and walked ‘like a soldier’. The chaplain asked if she would like a blindfold before her execution. ‘I am not afraid of looking into the rifles,’ she replied. ‘I have been expecting this for a long time.’