Author: Peter Duckers
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1844687120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Too often historical writing on the Russian War of 1854-56 focuses narrowly on the land campaign fought in the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. The wider war waged at sea by the British and French navies against the Russians is ignored. The allied navies aimed to strike at Russian interests anywhere in the world where naval force could be brought to bear, and as a result campaigns were waged in the Baltic, the Black Sea, the White Sea, on the Russian Pacific coast and in the Sea of Azoff. Yet it is the land campaign in the Crimea that shapes our understanding of events. In this graphic and original study, Peter Duckers seeks to set the record straight. He shows how these neglected naval campaigns were remarkably successful, in contrast to the wretched failures that beset the British army on land. Allied warships ranged across Russian waters sinking shipping, disrupting trade, raiding ports, bombarding fortresses, destroying vast quantities of stores and shelling coastal towns. The scale and intensity of the naval operations embarked upon during the war are astonishing, and little appreciated, and this new book offers the first overall survey of them.
The Origins of the Crimean War
Author: David M. Goldfrank
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317872290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Crimean War (1853-56) between Russia, Turkey, Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia was a diplomatically preventable conflict for influence over an unstable Near and Middle East. It could have broken out in any decade between Napoleon and Wilhelm II; equally, it need never have occurred. In this masterly study, based on massive archival research, David Goldfrank argues that the European diplomatic roots of the war stretch far beyond the `Eastern Question' itself, and shows how the domestic concerns of the participants contributed to the outbreak of hostilities.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317872290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Crimean War (1853-56) between Russia, Turkey, Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia was a diplomatically preventable conflict for influence over an unstable Near and Middle East. It could have broken out in any decade between Napoleon and Wilhelm II; equally, it need never have occurred. In this masterly study, based on massive archival research, David Goldfrank argues that the European diplomatic roots of the war stretch far beyond the `Eastern Question' itself, and shows how the domestic concerns of the participants contributed to the outbreak of hostilities.
A Review of the Crimean War to the Winter of 1854-5
Author: Sir John Adye
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Into Battle
Author: Ron McGuigan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781899244027
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781899244027
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The Crimean War at Sea
Author: Peter Duckers
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1844687120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Too often historical writing on the Russian War of 1854-56 focuses narrowly on the land campaign fought in the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. The wider war waged at sea by the British and French navies against the Russians is ignored. The allied navies aimed to strike at Russian interests anywhere in the world where naval force could be brought to bear, and as a result campaigns were waged in the Baltic, the Black Sea, the White Sea, on the Russian Pacific coast and in the Sea of Azoff. Yet it is the land campaign in the Crimea that shapes our understanding of events. In this graphic and original study, Peter Duckers seeks to set the record straight. He shows how these neglected naval campaigns were remarkably successful, in contrast to the wretched failures that beset the British army on land. Allied warships ranged across Russian waters sinking shipping, disrupting trade, raiding ports, bombarding fortresses, destroying vast quantities of stores and shelling coastal towns. The scale and intensity of the naval operations embarked upon during the war are astonishing, and little appreciated, and this new book offers the first overall survey of them.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1844687120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Too often historical writing on the Russian War of 1854-56 focuses narrowly on the land campaign fought in the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. The wider war waged at sea by the British and French navies against the Russians is ignored. The allied navies aimed to strike at Russian interests anywhere in the world where naval force could be brought to bear, and as a result campaigns were waged in the Baltic, the Black Sea, the White Sea, on the Russian Pacific coast and in the Sea of Azoff. Yet it is the land campaign in the Crimea that shapes our understanding of events. In this graphic and original study, Peter Duckers seeks to set the record straight. He shows how these neglected naval campaigns were remarkably successful, in contrast to the wretched failures that beset the British army on land. Allied warships ranged across Russian waters sinking shipping, disrupting trade, raiding ports, bombarding fortresses, destroying vast quantities of stores and shelling coastal towns. The scale and intensity of the naval operations embarked upon during the war are astonishing, and little appreciated, and this new book offers the first overall survey of them.
The Crimean Campaign with "The Connaught Rangers," 1854-55-56
Author: Nathaniel Steevens
Publisher: London : Griffith and Farran
ISBN:
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher: London : Griffith and Farran
ISBN:
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Crimean War
Author: Andrew Lambert
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317037006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
In contrast to every other book about the conflict Andrew Lambert's ground-breaking study The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-1856 is neither an operational history of the armies in the Crimea, nor a study of the diplomacy of the conflict. The core concern is with grand strategy, the development and implementation of national policy and strategy. The key concepts are strategic, derived from the works of Carl von Clausewitz and Sir Julian Corbett, and the main focus is on naval, not military operations. This original approach rejected the 'Continentalist' orthodoxy that dominated contemporary writing about the history of war, reflecting an era when British security policy was dominated by Inner German Frontier, the British Army of the Rhine and Air Force Germany. Originally published in 1990 the book appeared just as the Cold War ended; the strategic landscape for Britain began shifting away from the continent, and new commitments were emerging that heralded a return to maritime strategy, as adumbrated in the defence policy papers of the 1990s. With a new introduction that contextualises the 1990 text and situates it in the developing historiography of the Crimean War the new edition makes this essential book available to a new generation of scholars.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317037006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
In contrast to every other book about the conflict Andrew Lambert's ground-breaking study The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-1856 is neither an operational history of the armies in the Crimea, nor a study of the diplomacy of the conflict. The core concern is with grand strategy, the development and implementation of national policy and strategy. The key concepts are strategic, derived from the works of Carl von Clausewitz and Sir Julian Corbett, and the main focus is on naval, not military operations. This original approach rejected the 'Continentalist' orthodoxy that dominated contemporary writing about the history of war, reflecting an era when British security policy was dominated by Inner German Frontier, the British Army of the Rhine and Air Force Germany. Originally published in 1990 the book appeared just as the Cold War ended; the strategic landscape for Britain began shifting away from the continent, and new commitments were emerging that heralded a return to maritime strategy, as adumbrated in the defence policy papers of the 1990s. With a new introduction that contextualises the 1990 text and situates it in the developing historiography of the Crimean War the new edition makes this essential book available to a new generation of scholars.
The National Army Museum Book of the Crimean War
Author: Alastair Massie
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780283073557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book is based on unpublished material, from single letters by barely literate private soldiers to the voluminous correspondence of commander-in-chief Lord Raglan. The whole experience of fighting in the Crimea is captured here: the thrill of combat, the men's impressions of their allies--French, Turkish and Sardinian--the horrors of their first winter in the Crimea, the scandalously inadequate medical arrangements and the impact made by Florence Nightingale. Written by a leading authority in this field, this is a colorful, fresh account of one of nineteenth century's most famous conflicts.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780283073557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book is based on unpublished material, from single letters by barely literate private soldiers to the voluminous correspondence of commander-in-chief Lord Raglan. The whole experience of fighting in the Crimea is captured here: the thrill of combat, the men's impressions of their allies--French, Turkish and Sardinian--the horrors of their first winter in the Crimea, the scandalously inadequate medical arrangements and the impact made by Florence Nightingale. Written by a leading authority in this field, this is a colorful, fresh account of one of nineteenth century's most famous conflicts.
Crimea, 1854-56
Author: Lawrence James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856
Author: Trevor Royle
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1403964165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The war was a watershed in world history and pointed the way to what mass warfare would be like in the twentieth century.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1403964165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The war was a watershed in world history and pointed the way to what mass warfare would be like in the twentieth century.
“The” Ottoman Crimean War
Author: Candan Badem
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.