| Journal Kept During the Russian War: From the Departure of the Army from England in April, 1854, to the Fall of Sebastopol Contributor(s): Duberly, Frances Isabella (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108053491 ISBN-13: 9781108053495 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: August 2013 Click for more in this series: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 947.073 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.92 lbs) 330 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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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