Tells the story of Florence Nightingale, who in 1854 set sail for Scutari with a band of nurses, determined to help the British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War. When she first arrived, she was not welcomed. By the time she left she was ...
Evaluates the Crimean War from a humanitarian perspective that explains how the conflict had unintended consequences and was marked by confused purposes, in an account that also evaluates the war's naval battles. Original.