'FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, 1820-1910'

Biographies & Memoirs

Cecil Woodham-Smith

Community & Culture

Fontana

This is one of my favorite history books - it really DOES tell "The Reason Why" the Charge of the Light Brigade took place. The personal snubs, vaguely worded orders, and military strategies (or lack thereof) that led to these events are examined in depth and detail. A fascinating book and an all-around great read. Wendy Z.

The Reason Why

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

McGraw=Hill

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British ‘obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance’ – and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire ‘solutions’ – largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account. ‘A moving and terrible book. It combines great literary power with great learning. It explains much in modern Ireland – and in modern America’ D.W. Brogan.

The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849

Business & Money

Economics

Penguin Group

This biography of Queen Victoria, first published in 1972, deals with her wretched childhood which had the effect of developing within her a "vein of iron", and with her passionate nature, her devotion to the Prince Consort and her native shrewdness in politics.

Queen Victoria Her Life and Times 186

Penguin Putnam~trade

Paperback. Fair. Secondhand. Wear to book with creases on spine plus slight fold on front cover of book.

Queen Victoria: Her Life and Times, Volume I: 1819-1861

Sphere Books, Ltd.

The events of Victoria's life are portrayed against the political and social history of Britain and the Empire

Queen Victoria: Her Life and Times, 1819-1861

London : Book Club Associates

Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-49

History

Europe

New Eng. Lib.

Portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, the nineteenth-century English humanitarian, administrator, and the founder of modern nursing, and describes her accomplishments in battlefield and hospital nursing

Florence Nightingale

Scribner Paper Fiction

Barnes&Noble

The reason why

Nothing in British campaign history has ever equaled the tragic farce that was the Charge of the Light Brigade. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn enemies for more than thirty years. In revealing the combination of pride and obstinacy that was to prove so fatal, the author gives us a picture of a vanished world, in which heroism and military glory guaranteed an immortality impossible in a more cynical age.

Time-Life Books, Inc.

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Cecil Woodham-Smith. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Cecil Woodham-Smith