The Crimean War :
Figes, Orlando.
The Crimean War : a history / Orlando Figes. - 1st ed. - New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010. - xxiii, 576 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
"Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books, London, as 'Crimea'"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Religious wars -- Eastern questions -- The Russian menace -- The end of peace in Europe -- Phoney war -- First blood to the Turks -- Alma -- Sevastopol in the autumn -- Generals January and February -- Cannon fodder -- The fall of Sevastopol -- Paris and the new order -- The Crimean War in national myth and memory.
From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" comes the definitive account of the Crimean War, a forgotten war that shaped the modern age. Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence.
9780805074604 0805074600
2010023152
Crimean War, 1853-1856.
DK214 / .F53 2010
947/.0738
The Crimean War : a history / Orlando Figes. - 1st ed. - New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010. - xxiii, 576 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
"Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books, London, as 'Crimea'"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Religious wars -- Eastern questions -- The Russian menace -- The end of peace in Europe -- Phoney war -- First blood to the Turks -- Alma -- Sevastopol in the autumn -- Generals January and February -- Cannon fodder -- The fall of Sevastopol -- Paris and the new order -- The Crimean War in national myth and memory.
From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" comes the definitive account of the Crimean War, a forgotten war that shaped the modern age. Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence.
9780805074604 0805074600
2010023152
Crimean War, 1853-1856.
DK214 / .F53 2010
947/.0738