The Crimean War : a history / Orlando Figes.
Figes, Orlando.
2010
DK214 .F53 2010 (Mapit)
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Title The Crimean War : a history / Orlando Figes.
Author Figes, Orlando.
Uniform Title Crimea
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780805074604
0805074600
Imprint New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.
Language English
Description xxiii, 576 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number DK214 .F53 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 947/.0738
Summary 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.
Note "Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books, London, as 'Crimea'"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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