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Crimean War 1854-1856, The

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Type: Softcover

Product Line: Essential Histories - 1500 - 1900 A.D.

Last Stocked on 11/13/2022

Product Info

Title
Crimean War 1854-1856, The
Publisher
Category
Author
John Sweetman
Publish Year
2001
Pages
96
Dimensions
7x10x.3"
NKG Part #
2147394135
MFG. Part #
OSPESS002
Type
Softcover
Series
ESS2

Description

This bitter war between Russia and Turkey, aided by Britain and France, was the setting for the stuff of legends. This book details the gallant yet suicidal Charge of the Light Brigade, now immortalized in film: in the words of Tennyson, 'Into the Valley of Death rode the Six Hundred'. It relates the reports made by the first real war correspondent, William Russell of the London Times - reports which served only to highlight the army's problems - and memorializes the heroic deeds of Florence Nightingale, who struggled to save young men from the most formidable enemy in the Crimean War: not the Russians, but cholera.

Contents:

Chronology
Background to war: Panorama of the conflict
Warring sides: Opposing forces
Outbreak: A just war
The fighting: The clash of arms
Portrait of a soldier: Captain Lewis Edward Nolan
Portrait of a civilian: Women at war
How the war ended: Guns fall silent
Conclusion and consequences: Counting the cost

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