Author: Alma riverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The National Army Museum Book of the Crimean War
Author: Alastair MassiePublisher: 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This book is based on unpublished material, from single letters by barely literate private soldiers to the voluminous correspondence of commander-in-chief Lord Raglan.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.
The Quarterly Review
Author: William GiffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
The quarterly review
Author: The Critic
Author: Illustrated History of the War in Italy
Author: John E. TuelBent's Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings, Works on the Fine Arts
Author: 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..
The Spectator
Author: The Household Narrative of Current Events
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
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