Journal Kept during the Russian War : From the Departure of the Army from England in April, 1854, to the Fall of Sebastopol

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This account of the Crimean War, by the only woman on the front line, was hugely controversial when it was published in 1855. Laying bare the incompetence and negligence of the military and the unimaginable suffering of the soldiers, it stands comparison with any account of the horrors of war.