@article{693550,
      recid = {693550},
      author = {Fletcher, Ian, and Ishchenko, N. A.},
      title = {The Battle of the Alma : first blood to the Allies in the  Crimea /},
      publisher = {Pen & Sword Military,},
      address = {Barnsley, South Yorkshire :},
      pages = {x, 246 p. :},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {"On 20 September 1854 the combined British and French  armies confronted the Russians at the river Alma in the  critical opening encounter of the Crimean War. This was the  first major battle the British had fought on European soil  since Waterloo almost 40 years before. In this ... study,  Ian Fletcher and Natalia Ishchenko reconstruct the battle  ... using many rare and unpublished eyewitness accounts  from all sides --  English, French and Russian ... It also  gives ... insight into military thinking and organization  in the 1850s, midway between the end of the Napoleonic era  and the outbreak of the Great War"--Dust jkt.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/693550},
}