When Florence Nightingale staggered ashore at Scutari with her team of nurses in 1854, she knew she had a tough task ahead: to save the thousands of British soldiers injured in the disastrous Crimean War. But nothing could have prepared her for the horror that awaited her at the barrack hospital - few medicines; no clean water; and rats scuttling over the men as they lay moaning on the filthy floor. Florence worked 22 hours a day for those soldiers, and returned to England a heroine. Not that she cared a jot, she said. She had never wanted fame. In fact, she preferred cats to people.

 

This book is part of a book series called Who Was .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Short Books Ltd .

Charlotte Moore writes a column in the Guardian on life with her two autistic sons. The author of several novels, she lives in East Sussex.