The Crimean War :
, Crimea Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : Metropolitan Books, (New York :) Physical details: xxiii, 576 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. ISBN:9780805074604; 0805074600. Year: 2010Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Logos International School | 947.073 FIG (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 027082 |
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"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.
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