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The Rose Of Sebastopol (CD)

By: Katharine McMahon
Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 0752898930
ISBN-13: 9780752898933
Released: 13 Feb 2008
RRP: £14.99
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Stunning - By: Ali, 11 Mar 2008
This is one of the best books I have read for a long time - my only complaint being that I was so absorbed by the story that I had to read it at breakneck speed to find out what happened in the end!
A rose amongst the thorns of war - By: Mrs. M. G. Powling, 11 Aug 2007
If you only read one historical novel this year, then make it The Rose of Sebastopol. Set during the Crimean War (1854/55) it is a first person narrative by Mariella Lingwood, an obedient daughter who spends her life sewing & writing letters to her fiance, Henry, a young surgeon caught up in the war. Events draw Mariella inexorably towards that war & what she finds there is both devastating on a grand & also on a personal level. I had heard of the battles - the Charge of the Light Brigade, Inkerman, Balaklava & Sebastopol - but I knew little about them. Without checking I cannot say how accurate the details are, but I cannot think that Ms McMahon could have written with such authority had she not researched the background most carefully. This is a most captivating story, one that will remain with me for a very long time. The rose? Ahh, you will have to read the story to find out!