Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War

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Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781554587476

<p> 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. <i>The Crimean War</i> 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 from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. </p> <p> This volume contains much on Nightingale’s efforts to achieve real reforms. Her well-known, and relatively “sanitized”, evidence to the royal commission on the war is compared with her confidential, much franker, and very thorough <i>Notes on the Health of the British Army</i>, where the full horrors of disease and neglect are laid out, with the names of those responsible. </p>