Mrs Duberly's War: Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6

by Frances Isabella Locke Duberly

Book Overview

Mrs Duberly's journal is one of the most vivid eye-witness accounts we have of the Crimean War. Fanny Duberly, then aged 25, accompanied her husband to the Crimea in 1854, and remained there until the end of the fighting, the only officer's wife to remain throughout the entire campaign. She survived the severe winter of 1854-55, witnessed the battle of Balaklava and the charge of the Light Brigade, and rode through the ruins of Sebastopol.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199208611
• ISBN13: 9780199208616
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.8" x 5.4"