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Informationen zum Autor Mark Bostridge won the Gladstone Memorial Prize at Oxford University. His first book Vera Brittain: A Life was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize! the NCR Non-Fiction Award! and the Fawcett Prize. His books also include the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation ; Lives for Sale ! a collection of biographers' tales; Because You Died ; and The Fateful Year : England 1914 published in 2014. Florence Nightingale was awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. Klappentext Mark Bostridge won the Gladstone Memorial Prize at Oxford University. His first book Vera Brittain: A Life was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize! the NCR Non-Fiction Award! and the Fawcett Prize. His books also include the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation ; Lives for Sale ! a collection of biographers' tales; Because You Died ; and The Fateful Year : England 1914 published in 2014. Florence Nightingale was awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. Zusammenfassung Whether honoured and admired or criticized, Florence Nightingale has invariably been misrepresented and misunderstood. From her tireless campaigning and staggering intellectual abilities to her tortured relationship with her sister and her distressing medical condition, this book deals with one of the iconic figures in modern British history.
