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Author Figes, Orlando.

Title The Crimean War : a history / Orlando Figes.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1477839~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  947.0738 FIG    AVAILABLE
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Description xxiii, 576 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note "Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books, London, as 'Crimea'"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Religious wars -- Eastern questions -- The Russian menace -- The end of peace in Europe -- Phoney war -- First blood to the Turks -- Alma -- Sevastopol in the autumn -- Generals January and February -- Cannon fodder -- The fall of Sevastopol -- Paris and the new order -- The Crimean War in national myth and memory.
Summary 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.
Subject Crimean War, 1853-1856.
Added Title Crimea.
ISBN 9780805074604 (hc.)
0805074600 (hc.)
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