Helen Smith

Stepdaughters of War

Not So Quiet ...

Helen Zenna Smith

Describes the experiences of English women working as ambulence drivers in France during the First World War

Not So Quiet

Sarah Sammis

I read this back to back with All Quiet on the Western Front. I liked both of them very much. Eda Potato has stuck with me.

Praised by the Chicago Sun-Times for its “furious, indignant power,” this story offers a rare, funny, bitter, and feminist look at war. First published in London in 1930, Not So Quiet... (on the Western Front) describes a group of British women ambulance drivers on the French front lines during World War I, surviving shell fire, cold, and their punishing commandant, "Mrs. Bitch." The novel takes the guise of an autobiography by Smith, pseudonym for Evadne Price. The novel's power comes from Smith's outrage at the senselessness of war, at her country's complacent patriotism, and her own daily contact with the suffering and the wounded.

Not So Quiet...

Stephanie Almogabar

One of the best novels of war that I've ever read. It shows perfectly how the WWI affected women and how some people didn't have an heroic or patriotic spirit. It shows that horrible side of history we don't see often and it was written by a woman. This book should be more known.   

Not So Quiet ... Stepdaughters of War

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