Publisher's Synopsis
In November 1915, a woman appeared amidst the fighting at Gallipoli. She laid a wreath on a grave and then disappeared. It was the grave of a British Army Officer - Lt.-Colonel Doughty-Wylie - killed at the landings and awarded the Victoria Cross. Was the visitor a dedicated nurse and hospital founder who saved the lives of thousands in a fifty-year career or was it a famous explorer, fluent in Arabic and Persian and a friend of the famous including T.E. Lawrence and Winston Churchill? Was it his wife, or the other woman in his life? Painstakingly researched, this book investigates the mystery of the only woman to have landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula. It also covers the conflict itself and the aftermath.
