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Book Title
Crimea
Genre
Crimean War
ISBN
9780713997040
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Name
Crimea
Item Height
240 mm
Author
Orlando Figes
Publisher
Penguin Books LTD
Subject
History
Item Weight
1072 g
Item Width
162 mm
Number of Pages
608 Pages

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The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was also a war of religion, driven by a fervent, populist and ever more ferocious belief by the Tsar and his ministers that it was Russia's task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land. Orlando Figes' major new book reimagines this extraordinary war, in which the stakes could not have been higher and which was fought with a terrible mixture of ferocity and incompetence. It was both a recognisably modern conflict - the first to be extensively photographed, the first to employ the telegraph, the first 'newspaper war' - and a traditional one, with illiterate soldiers, amateur officers and huge casualties caused by disease. The iconic moments of the war - the Charge of the Light Brigade, the Siege of Sebastopol, the impact of Florence Nightingale - are all here, but there is also a rich sense of the Crimea itself and the culture that was destroyed by the fighting. Drawing on a huge range of fascinating sources, Figes also gives the lived experience of the war, from that of the ordinary British soldier in his snow-filled trench, to the haunted, gloomy, narrow figure of Tsar Nicholas himself as he vows to take on the whole world in his hunt for religious salvation.

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Publisher
Penguin Books LTD
ISBN-13
9780713997040
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Number of Pages
608 Pages
Publication Name
Crimea
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Author
Orlando Figes
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
240 mm
Item Weight
1072 g
Item Width
162 mm

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United Kingdom
Title_Author
Orlando Figes

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