A Brief History of the Crimean War
A Brief History of the Crimean War: History's Most Unnecessary Struggle Alexis Troubetzkoy,
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
ISBN: 0786718307
DDC: 947.0738
Edition: Paperback; 2006-11-01
Summary:
In September 1854, the armies of Britain, France and Turkey invaded
Russia in what was to become the Crimean War. In the months that
followed over half a million soldiers fell. They died from bullet
wounds and shrapnel, cholera and disease, starvation and freezing in
a medieval conflict fought in a modern age. But what is rarely
appreciated is that this extraordinary struggle was fought not only
in the Crimea, but also along the Danube, but in the Arctic Ocean, in
the Baltic and Pacific. Few wars in history reveal more confusion of
purpose or have had greater unintended consequences.Alexis
Troubezkoy's new history traces the causes of this most senseless of
wars and sketches a vivid picture of the age which made it possible,
interweaving descriptions of the Russian, Turkish and British armies
with the principals of the drama — Napoleon III, Marshal St. Arnaud,
Lord Raglan, the great Russian engineer Todleban, Florence
Nightingale, Nicholas I, and his magnificently terrible Russian
empire.
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