The Crimean War : a history
(2010)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
947.07/FIGES,O

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 947.07/FIGES,O Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

xxiii, 576 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780805074604 (hc.), 0805074600 (hc.), 0805074600 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books, London, as 'Crimea'"--T.p. verso

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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