Call to Arms
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2024

Abstract The Crimean War, which broke out unexpectedly in 1853, lacked a clear reason for occurring yet it became the international event of the Victorian age, involving Russia, Britain, France, and Ottoman Turkey. Russell, a journalist for The Times, and Tolstoy, a beginning writer, were swept up into it and found themselves on opposite sides of the trenches at the siege of Sevastopol, where most of the war’s fighting occurred. Historians have long debated why the war was fought, yet crucial to