To the 100th anniversary of the First World War! Based on this book, the most anticipated film of this anniversary year, “THE DEATH BATTALION,” was shot. Memoirs of an amazing woman, who is called the “Russian Joan of Arc,” and her incredible fate makes us recall such masterpieces as “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” and “War Has No Woman’s Face.” Having gone to the front as a volunteer, Maria Bochkareva personally participated in bayonet battles attacks and reconnaissance in force, was wounded three times, earned the St. George Cross and three medals. In 1917, when the disintegrated army increasingly “stuck the bayonet into the ground,” senior non-commissioned officer Bochkareva created the first female Death Battalion to show men “an example of self-sacrifice.” In the very first battle, the battalion lost a third of its personnel, but carried out the order, capturing enemy trenches, and all over Russia female shock units were already being formed, and it was the “suicide bombers” who were destined to become the last defenders of the Winter Palace... This book is an artless and honest story about the heroism of Russian women who were ready to die for their Motherland, about exploits and tragedies, glory and betrayal - about the last war of the Russian Empire, erased from history, but unforgettable.