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

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139383080

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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PREFACE
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Contents
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CHAPTER I - THE VOYAGE
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CHAP. II - DISEMBARKATION AND ENCAMPMENT AT VARNA
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CHAP. III - THE EXPEDITION TO THE CRIMEA
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CHAP. IV - BALAKLAVA
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CHAP. V - THE CAMP
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CHAP. VI - THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL
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Frontmatter
pp i-xii

PREFACE
pp xiii-xiv

Contents
pp xv-xvi

CHAPTER I - THE VOYAGE
pp 1-26

CHAP. II - DISEMBARKATION AND ENCAMPMENT AT VARNA
pp 27-71

CHAP. III - THE EXPEDITION TO THE CRIMEA
pp 72-96

CHAP. IV - BALAKLAVA
pp 97-174

CHAP. V - THE CAMP
pp 175-228

CHAP. VI - THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL
pp 229-311

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