Mara Kozelsky. Crimea in War and Transformation.
Journal: The American Historical Review
Year: 2019

In Western historical memory, the Crimean War is associated with the Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale, and the end of the age of sail and the beginning of modern war journalism. In recent decades, historians have tried to go beyond this all-too-familiar picture by exploring the global dimension of this conflict or by telling its story from the Russian, or the Ottoman, perspective. Mara Kozelsky’s thoroughly researched and archival-based monograph Crimea in War and Transformation