| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxiii, 576 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books, London, as 'Crimea'"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 494-540) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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"--Inside cover. |
| Subject |
Crimean War, 1853-1856.
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| Added Title |
Crimea
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| ISBN |
9780805074604 hardcover $35.00 |
|
0805074600 hardcover |
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