TY  - BOOK
AB  - "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 using many rare and unpublished eyewitness accounts from all sides --  English, French and Russian ...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.
AU  - Fletcher, Ian,
AU  - Ishchenko, N. A.
CN  - DK215.1
CN  - DK215.1
CY  - Barnsley, South Yorkshire :
DA  - 2008.
ID  - 693550
KW  - Alma, Battle of the, Ukraine, 1854.
KW  - Crimean War, 1853-1856
KW  - Alma, Battle of the, Ukraine, 1854
N2  - "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 using many rare and unpublished eyewitness accounts from all sides --  English, French and Russian ...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.
PB  - Pen & Sword Military,
PP  - Barnsley, South Yorkshire :
PY  - 2008.
SN  - 9781844156726
SN  - 1844156729
T1  - The Battle of the Alma :first blood to the Allies in the Crimea /
TI  - The Battle of the Alma :first blood to the Allies in the Crimea /
ER  -