Bibliograph

The Crimean War, a history, Orlando Figes

Type

Label

The Crimean War, a history, Orlando Figes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Crimean War

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

637715085

Responsibility statement

Orlando Figes

Sub title

a history

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

Table Of Contents

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

Classification