Bibliograph

Crimea, the last crusade, Orlando Figes

Type

Label

Crimea, the last crusade, Orlando Figes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsplatesportraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Crimea

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

765533399

Responsibility statement

Orlando Figes

Sub title

the last crusade

Summary

Orlando Figes' Crimea is a powerful history of the Crimean War, the conflict that dominated the nineteenth century. The Crimean War one of the fiercest battles in Russia's history, killing nearly a million men and completely redrawing the map of Europe. Pitting the Tsar's empire against an alliance of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire, it was the first conflict to use photography, the telegraph and newspapers; a war over territory, from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf; a war of religion, driven by a fervent, populistbelief by the Tsar and his ministers that it was Russia's task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land; it was the original "total war". Orlando Figes' vivid new book reinterprets this extraordinary conflict. Bringing to life ordinary soldiers in snow-filled trenches, surgeons on the battlefield and the haunted, fanatical figure of Tsar Nicholas himself, Crimea tells the human story of a tragic war. --, Provided by publisher

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