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The journalist William Howard Russell (1820-1907) is sometimes regarded as being the first war correspondent, and his reports from the conflict in the Crimea are also credited with being a cause of reforms made to the British military system. Published in 1855, during the late stages of the conflict, this is a collection of eye-witness reports originally printed in The Times newspaper, including the famous account, from 25 October 1854, of the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava, and the other engagement on the same day which gave rise to the phrase 'the thin red line'. Russell's accounts are unflinching in their dramatic descriptions of the appalling and insanitary conditions endured by the ill-provisioned troops, and his criticism of those in command, particularly Lord Raglan, had a dramatic impact on the British people and government. Reading these letters today, it is easy to understand why.
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Frances Isabella Duberly (1829-1902) accompanied her officer husband to the Crimea as the only woman on the front line. Her letters home to her sister, highlighting the incompetence and negligence of the generals, and describing the appalling conditions in which the men were fighting, appeared anonymously in the press and, along with W. H. Russell's reports, helped stir public opinion against the prosecution of the war. This reaction persuaded Duberly to ask her brother-in-law to edit her diary, and it provoked a sensation when published in 1855. Although she occasionally conveys some of the elation of victory, the journal is more often a stark and disturbing document: following the battle of Balaclava she writes that 'even my closed eyelids were filled with the ruddy glare of blood'. No history of this brutal campaign can ignore this journal, and it stands comparison with any account of the horrors of war.
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Crimean War, 1853-1856 --- Guerre de Crimée, 1853-1856 --- Maps --- Cartes
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Kars (Turquie) --- Cartes --- Early works to 1900 --- Crimean War, 1853-1856 --- Cartes --- Early works to 1900
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Crimea (Ukraine) --- Cartes --- Early works to 1900 --- Crimean War, 1853-1856 --- Cartes --- Early works to 1900
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Alouchta (Ukraine) --- Cartes --- Early works to 1900 --- Crimean War, 1853-1856 --- Cartes --- Early works to 1900
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Crimean War, 1853-1856 --- Cartes --- Early works to 1900 --- Chernaya [Battle of the], 1855 --- Cartes --- Early works to 1900
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