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Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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150th Anniversary of the Crimean War
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ISBN:
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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War Fever in Port Phillip
Author: Meyer EidelsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780975106075
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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The Thin Red Line
Author: Julian SpilsburyPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited
ISBN: 9780297846253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
'Home in time for the pheasant season' was the cheerful assumption of most British officers when the Army was shipped off to fight the Russians in 1854. But it was not to be. After landing in the Crimea and beating the Russians in open battle, the redcoats found themselves laying siege to the great naval base of Sebastopol. There, they endured a bitter winter in improvised positions, desperately short of supplies and with next to no medical care. Published to mark the 150th anniversary of the Crimean War, Julian Spilsbury's narrative is drawn from the diaries and letters of soldiers of this most famous Victorian army. From the initial landings in an exotic land to the battles, the long months of siege and the final victorious assault, the story unfolds through the words of the men - and women - who were there. We follow a cast of extraordinary characters who, one after another, fall, some to bounce back with almost superhuman resilience, others to die at the incompetent hands of the Army's surgeons. The Army's leading personalities are a collection of eccentrics; some were short-sighted, some downright criminal. But not one of them doubted the British would win, no matter how dire the odds - and this is why they ultimately prevailed.
The Crimean War
Author: Ian FletcherPublisher: Spellmount, Limited Publishers
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
2004 marks the 150th anniversary of the Crimean War and this volume covers the events from the complex causes of the war and the declaration of war by Turkey in 1853, through the involvement of Britain and France in 1854 and the war itself including the bloody battles of Alma, Balaclava and Inkermann to the declaration of peace in 1856.
Reminiscences of the Crimean Campaign With the 55th Regiment
Author: J. R. HumePublisher:
ISBN: 9781843424956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Accounts of the 1854-55 Crimean campaign by participants in the conflict are as fascinating as those, perhaps more-well known, of the equally gruelling Peninsular War. As we mark the 150th anniversary of the conflict, they have an extra resonance. This is one of the best, containing as it does the recollections of an officer who served throuighout the war from its outbreak to its conclusion with the Fall of Sebastopool. Hume s account, taken from the diaries and letters he wrote at the time, deal with the 55th Regiment s part in the battles of the Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman, and with the siege of Sebastopol itself. There are descriptions of such famous Crimean characters as the Commander-in-Chief, Lord Raglan, and Florence Nightingale. As well as the battle narratives, there are vivid accounts of the other enemies that the trooops had to face: Cholera and the Russian winter. The book is illustrated with 28 photographs and maps. ....in my view there is no substitute for reading the first-hand accounts of the war by those who took part at the sharp end . This is a fine one. Major Colin Robins
“The” Ottoman Crimean War
Author: Candan BademPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004182055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
This book analyzes the Crimean War from the Ottoman perspective based mainly on Ottoman and Russian primary sources, and includes an assessment of the War s impact on the Ottoman state and Ottoman society.
The Crimean War
Author: Orlando FigesPublisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429997249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Please note that the maps available in the print edition do not appear in the ebook. From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Less well-known is that this savage war (1853-1856) killed almost a million soldiers and countless civilians; that it enmeshed four great empires—the British, French, Turkish, and Russian—in a battle over religion as well as territory; that it fixed the fault lines between Russia and the West; that it set in motion the conflicts that would dominate the century to come. In this masterly history, Orlando Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence. Drawing on untapped Russian and Ottoman as well as European sources, Figes vividly depicts the world at war, from the palaces of St. Petersburg to the holy sites of Jerusalem; from the young Tolstoy reporting in Sevastopol to Tsar Nicolas, haunted by dreams of religious salvation; from the ordinary soldiers and nurses on the battlefields to the women and children in towns under siege.. Original, magisterial, alive with voices of the time, The Crimean War is a historical tour de force whose depiction of ethnic cleansing and the West's relations with the Muslim world resonates with contemporary overtones. At once a rigorous, original study and a sweeping, panoramic narrative, The Crimean War is the definitive account of the war that mapped the terrain for today's world..
Crimean Memories
Author: Will HutchisonPublisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780764332289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This book is a broad comprehensive photographic essay regarding surviving artefacts of the Crimean War, fought 150 years ago between Russia and the combined power of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey. The authors have spent nearly two years locating and photographing artefacts in national museums, regimental museums, and private collections throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Each artefact is presented as a highly detailed colour photograph, shot from various angles with the researcher in mind, coming alive from the page to the reader. Each photographic image is accompanied by detailed and informative text regarding physical properties, history, and specific origin. The photographs are catalogued under descriptive chapters introducing the British soldier's clothing, accoutrements, necessaries, camp equipment, and weapons, and each is accompanied by detailed and informative text regarding physical properties, history, and specific origin of the item. This definitive work will provide an invaluable resource for serious military researchers and historians.
The Ultimate Spectacle
Author: Ulrich KellerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9789057005695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Chloroform, telegraphy, steamships and rifles were distinctly modern features of the Crimean War. Covered by a large corps of reporters, illustrators and cameramen, it also became the first media war in history. For the benefit of the ubiquitous artists and correspondents, both the military and the domestic events were carefully staged, giving the Crimean War an aesthetically alluring, even spectacular character. With their exclusive focus on written sources, historians have consistently overlooked this visual dimension of the Crimean War. Photo-historian Ulrich Keller challenges the traditional literary bias by drawing on a wealth of pictorial materials from scientific diagrams to photographs, press illustration and academic painting. The result is a new and different historical account which emphasizes the careful aesthetic scripting of the war for popular mass consumption at home. Included in this media history of the Crimean War are elements of its still unwritten social history. In the Victorian era, the proliferation of lithography, press illustration, photography and other mass media, gave various social groups a chance to circulate competing views of the war where, previously, monarchs had possessed a near monopoly on the pictorial representation of history. The broad range of visual sources included in the book thus documents not only the war between the British and the Russians in the Crimea but also the battle of representations which raged in the deeply divided society at home.
Author: Phil Astley