num_pages: 344
description: The Crimean War (1853-56) between Russia, Turkey, Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia was the biggest international conflict of the European powers in the century between the Napoleonic Wars and the World War I. When it was over, 800,000 soldiers had died in an obscure corner of the map in a war that could easily have been prevented. How did it happen? David Goldfrank shows how, though the war was fought in the distant Crimea, its origins lay in the pressing domestic concerns of the belligerents.
language: English
title: The Origins of the Crimean War
titlecomplete: The Origins of the Crimean War (Origins of Modern Wars)
characters: John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Count Karl Ferdinand von Buol, Mehmed Rashid Pasha, Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Philipp von Brunnow, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Abdulmejid I, Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, Nicholas I of Russia, Karl Nesselrode
ratings_count: 9
series: Origins of Modern Wars
publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd