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Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend by Mark Bostridge
Category: Biography
'SUPERB' Sunday Times 'ENGROSSING' History Today 'EXCELENT'Spectator 'ENTHRALLING' GuardianWHO WAS THE LADY WITH THE LAMP? WHERE DID THE LEGEND COME FROM? AND WHAT WAS THE TRUTH?From her battles with family, doctors, nurses and the British establishment to her ceaseless work on behalf of the sick, the w ...Show more
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend: 200th Anniversary Edition by Mark Bostridge
Category: Biography
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been misrepresented and misunderstood. As the Lady with the Lamp, mi ...Show more
Kilvert's Diary by William Plomer (Editor); Francis Kilvert; Mark Bostridge (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
Francis Kilvert was a country clergyman who lived from 1840 to 1879, and these are his diaries: gossipy, sweet-natured, generous, curious, and full of an abiding wonder and delight in the natural world and the beauties of the changing seasons. The three volumes in this book are all that remain of his wr ...Show more
The Fateful Year: England 1914 by Mark Bostridge
Category: Accessories
The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art, schoolchild ...Show more
The Fateful Year : England 1914 by Mark Bostridge
Category: History
The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art, schoolchild ...Show more
Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth by Mark Bostridge
Category: Biography
Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth whilst charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak. In the ...Show more
Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth by Mark Bostridge
Category: Accessories
Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth whilst charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak. In the ...Show more
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