Mary Seacole: Bound for the Battlefield

<p><b>The true story of Mary Seacole the Celebrated Heroine of the Crimean War.</b><br>Over two hundred years ago in Kingston Jamaica a little girl called Mary watched as her mother selected a bottle of medicine for a sick British soldier. This marked the beginning of Mary Seacole's passion for nursing which would go on to shape the rest of her life. As a young woman she would have to overcome personal tragedy &#150; the sudden loss of her mother and husband &#150; and prejudice from her peers to reach the battlefields of the Crimean War nursing soldiers back to health and even carrying them from the midst of the fighting. <br><b><br>With words by Susan Goldman Rubin and lively illustrations by Richie Pope this is the true story of the Celebrated Heroine of the Crimean War.</b></p>