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Journal Kept during the Russian War - From the Departure of the Army from England in April, 1854, to the Fall of Sebastopol (Paperback)
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Journal Kept during the Russian War - From the Departure of the Army from England in April, 1854, to the Fall of Sebastopol (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History
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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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