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No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Helen Rappaport
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd; illustrated edition edition (20 Feb 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1845132203
  • ISBN-13: 978-1845132200
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.4 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 688,007 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The Times, March 10, 2007

`Fascinating ... the author has made excellent use of [the diaries
and letters]. Rappaport weaves their stories into the text without
sentimentality; the facts speak for themselves.'

Guardian, March 31, 2007

`No Place for Ladies tells the haunting stories of these mostly
forgotten women, drawing the reader into the lives of extreme hardship,
devotion and devastation. Helen Rappaport paints a vivid picture of these
women ... flung into the midst of the brutality of war.'

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5.0 out of 5 stars A New Classic on the Crimean War, 14 April 2007
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This review is from: No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War (Hardcover)
It is hard to list the superlatives of this book. Helen Rappaport has exceptional writing and research skills. The result is a book which is a fascinating read, while simultaneously providing a wealth of information for the research historian. Where former books in this genre provided a few well known stories of British heroines, Ms. Rappaport has provided a much more extensive account to include stories of the bravery and heroic actions of the French and Russian women that were present. She tells her tale with praiseworthy objectivity, so that even Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole are not portrayed as plaster saints, but as living, breathing persons. In weaving her tale, the author has not only provided the story of the women of the war, but an excellent, concise history of the war itself. Destined to be a new classic on the war!
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A very high standard of research., 15 April 2007
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Keith Smith "wolvesman" (Oxfordshire UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War (Hardcover)
I found this book to be an excellent read on a subject rarely tackled. Not since Following The Drum by Brigadier Page in 1986 (covering the Peninsular War)have I seen a work of this standard, with its exceptional detailed research which probes the lives of the simple camp followers as well as the well-heeled good and the great of all nations involved. I like also the accuracy of dates and events of the campaign, an aspect which I have found to be lacking in many recent publications. This book will appeal to a very wide range of readers and not just students of 19th century conflicts.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars No Place for Ladies, 20 Mar 2007
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C. Zaba "Christina" (Bristol, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War (Hardcover)
This quiet book is dynamite - a groundbreaking account of what the women got up to in one of the most iconic wars ever fought by Britain, and in many ways a precursor to the First World War in its sheer mismanagement and negligence. Women were there to pick up the pieces, and many of them died in the process. Others you'll never see in the same light again: Florence Nightingale, a control freak and ambitious, bad-tempered administrator; Mary Seacole, the Creole Jamaican with shoulders broad enough to conquer every adversity and still have heart enough left to comfort despairing and injured men in a place bleaker than anywhere. There were the hapless lovelorn ones who were abandoned on lonely beaches weeping; the loyal ones who just simply died with their men (you can't help wondering why - did they really have no homes to go to?); the aristocrats who loved their horses and their flirting; the busy, enterprising ones who set up businesses wherever they went. Children didn't stand much of a chance; but the fact that any women came through at all is miracle enough.

Meticulously researched, compassionate and readable, this is a book written with a level head and a steady gaze, which looks at what we all want to see but few of us do. Victorian England is both kinder and more cruel than I'd thought. The women say it all.
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