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This is a compelling psychological portrait of a very eminent (and complex) Victorian.'  James Le Fanu, Daily Telegraph  Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is best known as a reformer of hospital nursing during and after the Crimean War, but many feel that her nursing reputation has been overstated.   A Brief History of Florence Nightingale tells the story of the sanitary disaster in her wartime hospital and why the government covered it up against her wishes. After the war she worked to put the lessons of the tragedy to good use to reduce the very high mortality from epidemic disease in the civilian population at home. She did this by persuading Parliament in 1872 to pass laws which required landlords to improve sanitation in working-class homes, and to give local authorities rather than central government the power to enforce the laws. 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This new edition subverts Nightingale's emotionally repressed image by revealing that she had a romantic entanglement during the war, which had historic consequences for her country. Hugh Small's new research also sheds light on the source of her power over politicians, which made her a Cabinet Minister for a whole decade when history says that such a thing was impossible for a woman. He shows for the first time how her leadership of the public health movement made a huge contribution to the unprecedented rise in life expectancy in Britain. Nightingale is one of history's most enigmatic and controversial figures, a polymath whose combination of boundless energy and chronic illness has confounded biographers. Small debunks the latest conventional wisdom - based on a misreading of technical literature - that a chronic infection caused her to be depressed.  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Only since the collapse of the Soviet Union has it become clear how much had been at stake in the Crimea. The failure of Britain's politicians to control their generals led to the collapse of the peacekeeping arrangements of the 'Concert of Europe' - a sort of early UN Security Council. Russian expansion continued unchecked, leading to the divisions seen today in Ukraine.Small is equally revealing about the battles. His carefully-researched account of the famous Charge of the Light Brigade overturns the modern conclusion that it was a blunder by senior officers. 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