Letters from the Crimea : writing home, a Dundee doctor / edited by Douglas Hill ; introduction by Trevor Royle.

  • Greig, David, 1832-1890
Date:
2010
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Description

"[This book contains] ... letters from a young Dundee surgeon who had volunteered to serve with the British Army during the Crimean War 1854-1856 ... There is very little about the much-documented chaos of the campaign and the misery in the British Military Hospital in Constantinople. Instead we have this young doctor's first-hand ... comments on the events that took place around him"--Preface.

Publication/Creation

Dundee : Dundee University Press, 2010.

Physical description

xi, 224 pages ; 22 cm

Contents

Departure from Great Britain -- Scutari -- Kulalie; death of a colleague -- Sickness, near death -- Siege of Sebastopol -- Attack on Kinburn -- Cholera again -- Peace -- Home to Britain -- Return to Scutari, 1890.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Greig)
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ISBN

  • 9781845860943
  • 1845860942