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Even in Tennyson's day, everyone knew that the order to charge had been a hideous mistake. But publicly, "the reason why" was long a mystery. Mrs. Cecil Woodham-Smith's book is the best untraveling of the old story...
Kings & Presidents. The year's outstanding biography was Englishwoman Cecil Woodham-Smith's story of the dedicated Florence Nightingale. The glibbest was Hesketh Pearson's quick look at Disraeli in Dizzy. The most unabashedly sensational was Ethel Waters' crudely effective His Eye Is on the Sparrow. Onetime Brigadier Desmond Young wrote an uncritically sympathetic life of his wartime enemy in Rommel, and sales proved that the Afrika Korps' brilliant commander still held a place in U.S. imagination. The Rise and Fall of Hermann Goering was a much better book than Rommel, but fat Hermann seemed...
Back from a two-month vacation in Europe, Broadway's Katharine Cornell, who had always said she would not do a movie until the right part came along, announced that she had finally found it in Author Cecil Woodham-Smith's new biography, Florence Nightingale...
Florence Nightingale, by Cecil Woodham-Smith. Incandescent humanitarianism-and the "voices" that inspired it-in a biography which notably revises the standard portrait (TIME...
...outstanding new biography based on six years of digging in old letters and documents, Mrs. Woodham-Smith reveals the real springs of Florence Nightingale's ardor: when she was 16, "voices" assured her of a special call...