The Crimean War
Subtitle: a history
By: Orlando Figes
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780805074604
Subjects: Crimean War, 1853-1856
Work titles: Crimea
Description: 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.
Notes: "Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books, London, as 'Crimea'"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Religious wars; title: Eastern questions; title: The Russian menace; title: The end of peace in Europe; title: Phoney war; title: First blood to the Turks; title: Alma; title: Sevastopol in the autumn; title: Generals January and February; title: Cannon fodder; title: The fall of Sevastopol; title: Paris and the new order; title: The Crimean War in national myth and memory.