Journal Kept during the Russian War
Journal Kept during the Russian War
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GBPFrances 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.
Product details
August 2013Paperback
9781108053495
330 pages
216 × 140 × 19 mm
0.42kg
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Table of Contents
- 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.
