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A book set in the 1914 -18 Great War about a woman's determination to help war refugees return to their country and how Sybil Martens, a former suffragette, is determined to help her. In 1914 German and Austrian families are stranded in Britain and an American Quaker, Beatrice Coverley, decides to help them return home. She needs a German and Dutch speaker to help her to take the party of women and children through neutral Holland and through Germany and recruits a wayward and extravert Dutch woman called Sybil for this purpose. But Sybil is not dependable. She likes to drink and hates to take orders from Sybil. Inevitably the two women argue and expedition through war torn Europe is put at risk. Other challenges arise to threaten them and their situation becomes dangerous when the German authorities become interested in Sybil Marten's past.
In the convulsive environment that followed World War I and the Russian Revolution, the issues of policing and public order were of primary importance to the various governments of Interwar Europe. The book features original research on 10 different countries and will be vitally useful for students and academics of 20th century Europe.
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