
Journal Kept during the Russian War
From the Departure of the Army from England in April, 1854, to the Fall of Sebastopol
Frances Isabella Duberly(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 22. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
330 pages
978-1-108-05349-5 (ISBN)
Description
Frances Isabella Duberly (1829-1902) accompanied her officer husband to the Crimea as the only woman on the front line. Her letters home to her sister, highlighting the incompetence and negligence of the generals, and describing the appalling conditions in which the men were fighting, appeared anonymously in the press and, along with W. H. Russell's reports, helped stir public opinion against the prosecution of the war. This reaction persuaded Duberly to ask her brother-in-law to edit her diary, and it provoked a sensation when published in 1855. Although she occasionally conveys some of the elation of victory, the journal is more often a stark and disturbing document: following the battle of Balaclava she writes that 'even my closed eyelids were filled with the ruddy glare of blood'. No history of this brutal campaign can ignore this journal, and it stands comparison with any account of the horrors of war.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-05349-5 (9781108053495)
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Content
Preface; 1. The voyage; 2. Disembarkation and camp at Varna; 3. The expedition to the Crimea; 4. Balaklava; 5. The camp; 6. The fall of Sebastopol.