Big questions of the Crimean War: aftermath and legacy
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Florence Nightingale: A Middle-Class Hero
Florence Nightingale is a very interesting phenomenon. The one thing that the press wants in this war is a middle-class hero. It's not entirely clear that what she did in the war saved that many lives. Some of the statistics which she collected suggested that her hospital at Scotari wasn't particularly successful in saving men's lives. But it was successful in improving the conditions in which they were operating.
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