Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War

by Lynn McDonald

Book Overview

Florence Nightingale is famous as the "lady with the lamp" in the Crimean War, 1854--56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale's correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889204691
• ISBN13: 9780889204690
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 1096 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"