Author: Frances Isabella Duberly
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Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Frances Isabella Duberly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108053491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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A celebrated Crimean War account by the only woman on the front line - hugely controversial when published in 1855.

Author: Mrs. Frances Isabella Locke Duberly
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Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Author: Francis Isabella Duberly
Publisher: Soldiershop Publishing
ISBN: 8896519829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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A terrific book, An incredible and wonderful most vivid eye-witness accounts we have of the Crimean War. Write by the Victorian lady Fanny Duberly. For the first time enriched with several Fenton's photos in a new unpublished terrific coloration! Fanny was quite a girl, but also a writer of considerable talent. Maligned by some of her contemporaries because she didn't quite fit in with the Victorian image of what a 'lady' should be, she did things her way and wrote about them in a vivid, lively way, bringing the Crimean War to gut-wrenching life in a way no history book can. She was there for the duration, saw the Charge of the Light Brigade, walked through the ruins of Sebastopol and didn't hesitate to say what she thought.Admired, parodied but never ignored, Fanny Duberly was a force of nature and a woman out of her time. The diary is linked by well-chosen excerpts from her letters and brief historical notes, putting what Fanny is saying into its proper context.

Author: Midge Gillies
Publisher: Aurum
ISBN: 1781315515
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Most families have an army wife somewhere in their past. Over the centuries they have followed their men to the front, helped them keep order in far-flung parts of the empire or waited anxiously at home. Army Wives uses first hand accounts, letters and diaries to tell their story. We meet the wives who made the arduous journey to the Crimean war and witnessed battle at close quarters. We hear the story of life in the Raj and the, often terrifying, experiences of the women who lived through its dying days. We explore the pressures of being a modern army wife - whether living in barracks or trying to maintain a normal home life outside 'the patch'. In the twentieth century two world wars produced new generations of army wives who forged friendships that lasted into peacetime. Army Wives reveals their experience and that of a new breed of independent women who supported their men through the Cold War to the current war on terror. Midge Gillies, author of acclaimed The Barbed-Wire University, looks at how industrial warfare means husbands can survive battle with life-changing injuries that are both mental and physical - and what that means for their family. She describes how army wives communicate with their husbands - via letters and coded messages, to more immediate, but less intimate, texts and Skype. She examines bereavement, from the seances, public memorials and deaths in a foreign field of the Great War to the modern media coverage of flag-draped coffins returning home by military plane. Above all, Army Wives examines what it really means to be part of the 'army family'.

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Languages : en
Pages : 870

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Author: Samuel Greatheed
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Author: W. Oliphant
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Languages : en
Pages : 682

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Author: M. J. Trow
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1781597197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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William Morris was in the front rank during the Charge of the Light Brigade. He was one of the first horsemen to reach the Russian guns. This is his story. M.J. Trow's vivid biography of this typical Victorian soldier gives a fascinating insight into the officer class that fought the Crimean War. In recording Morris's experiences during a notorious campaign, the author reveals much about the hidebound character of the British army of that era. The portraits of Morris's fellow officers and commanders - men like Nolan, Raglan and Lucan - are telling, as is the contrast between Morris and his incompetent superior Cardigan. The author meticulously recreates Morris's life and, through him, the lives of a generation of professional British soldiers.

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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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