num_pages: 304
description: This story offers a rare, funny, bitter, feminist look at war from women actively engaged in it. Published in London in 1930, Not So Quiet ...(on the Western Front) is a novel in autobiographical guise that describes a group of British women ambulance drivers on the French front lines during World War 1. As Voluntary Aid Detachment workers, the women pay for the privilege of driving the wounded through shell fire in the freezing cold, on no sleep and an inedible diet, under the watchful eye of their punishing commandant, nicknamed Mrs. Bitch.
language: English
title: Not So Quiet...
titlecomplete: Not So Quiet...
genres: 20th Century, Historical, Classics, World War I, Womens, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, College
ratings_count: 960
series: Stepdaughters of War
publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY