| Edition |
First St. Martin's edition. |
| Description |
xi, 564 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Maps on lining papers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [525]-532) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: 1851 -- A Churchwardens' Quarrel -- Menshikov's Mission -- Getting into Deep Waters -- The Thousand and One Notes -- Phoney War -- The Affair at Sinope -- Drifting towards War -- 'Our Beautiful Guards' -- Uneasy Partners -- Opening Shots -- Varna Interlude -- Hurrah for the Crimea! -- Advance to Contact -- The Alma: The Infantry Will Advance -- Missed Opportunities -- Ladies with Lamps -- Balaklava: A Cavalryman's Battle -- Inkerman: An Infantryman's Battle -- Arrival of General Winter -- Muddle in Washington, Progress in Vienna -- 'Pam' Enters the Fray -- Spring Stalemate -- Todleben's Triumph -- Spring Cruise, Summer Success -- Trench Warfare: Massacre in the Redoubts -- Sevastopol Falls -- The Forgotten War: Kars and Erzerum -- A Second Winter -- Peace Feelers -- Tying Up Some Loose Ends -- Peacetime in Paris -- The New World Order -- Learning the Lessons the Hard Way -- Epilogue: 1914. |
| Subject |
Crimean War, 1853-1856.
|
| ISBN |
0312230796 |
|
9780312230791 |
|
