A Short History Of The Crimean War

Author : Trudi Tate
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786725554

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A Short History of the Crimean War by Trudi Tate Pdf

The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war artists, recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera. In her new short history, Trudi Tate discusses the ways in which this novel representation itself became part of the modern war machine. She tells forgotten stories about the war experience of individual soldiers and civilians, including journalists, nurses, doctors, war tourists and other witnesses. At the same time, the war was a retrograde one, fought with the mentality, and some of the equipment, of Napoleonic times. Tate argues that the Crimean War was both modern and old-fashioned, looking backwards and forwards, and generating optimism and despair among those who lived through it. She explores this paradox while giving full coverage to the bloody battles (Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman), the siege of Sebastopol, the much-derided strategies of the commanders, conditions in the field and the cultural impact of the anti-Russian alliance.

Author : Trudi Tate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
ISBN : 1788316347

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A Short History of the Crimean War by Trudi Tate Pdf

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Maps and Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Timeline; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Drift to War and the Battle of the Alma; Chapter 2: The Siege Established and the Battle of Balaklava; Chapter 3: Scutari, Inkerman and the Siege; Chapter 4: Sebastopol: The Fallen City; Chapter 5: The Baltic Campaign; Chapter 6: The End of the War; Further Reading; Notes; Index.

Author : Hugh Small
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750987424

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The Crimean War by Hugh Small Pdf

The Crimean War was the most destructive conflict of Queen Victoria's reign, the outcome of which was indecisive; most historians regard it as an irrelevant and unnecessary conflict despite its fame for Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the Light Brigade. Here Hugh Small shows how the history of the Crimean War has been manipulated to conceal Britain's – and Europe's – failure. The war governments and early historians combined to withhold the truth from an already disappointed nation in a deception that lasted over a century. Accounts of battles, still widely believed, gave fictitious leadership roles to senior officers. Careful analysis of the fighting shows that most of Britain's military successes in the war were achieved by the common soldiers, who understood tactics far better than the officer class and who acted usually without orders and often in contravention of them. Hugh Small's mixture of politics and battlefield narrative identifies a turning point in history, and raises disturbing questions about the utility of war.

Author : Alexis S. Troubetzkoy
Publisher : Robinson Non-Fiction
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
ISBN : 1845294203

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A Brief History of the Crimean War by Alexis S. Troubetzkoy Pdf

In September 1854, the armies of Britain, France and Turkey invaded Russia. In the months that followed over half a million soldiers fell. They died from bullet wounds and shrapnel, cholera and disease, starvation and freezing. The Crimean War was a medieval conflict fought in a modern age. But what is rarely appreciated, and what this historical examination shows, is that this extraordinary and costly struggle was fought not only in the Crimea, but also along the Danube, in the Arctic Ocean, in the Baltic and Pacific. Few wars in history reveal greater confusion of purpose or have had richer unintended consequences. Much has been written about this most senseless of wars and this new history does not aim to cover old ground. Instead, it traces the war's causes and sketches a vivid picture of the age which made it possible, up until the moment of the Allies' departure for the Crimea. Woven together with developments in diplomacy, trade and nationalistic expression are descriptions of the Russian, Turkish and British armies and 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.

Author : Orlando Figes
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429997249

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The Crimean War by Orlando Figes Pdf

Please note that the maps available in the print edition do not appear in the ebook. From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Less well-known is that this savage war (1853-1856) killed almost a million soldiers and countless civilians; that it enmeshed four great empires—the British, French, Turkish, and Russian—in a battle over religion as well as territory; that it fixed the fault lines between Russia and the West; that it set in motion the conflicts that would dominate the century to come. In this masterly history, Orlando Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence. Drawing on untapped Russian and Ottoman as well as European sources, Figes vividly depicts the world at war, from the palaces of St. Petersburg to the holy sites of Jerusalem; from the young Tolstoy reporting in Sevastopol to Tsar Nicolas, haunted by dreams of religious salvation; from the ordinary soldiers and nurses on the battlefields to the women and children in towns under siege.. Original, magisterial, alive with voices of the time, The Crimean War is a historical tour de force whose depiction of ethnic cleansing and the West's relations with the Muslim world resonates with contemporary overtones. At once a rigorous, original study and a sweeping, panoramic narrative, The Crimean War is the definitive account of the war that mapped the terrain for today's world..

Author : Julian Spilsbury
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0304367214

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The Thin Red Line by Julian Spilsbury Pdf

The Crimean War was the first war in which ordinary British soldiers recorded their experiences, and Julian Spilsbury's narrative is drawn from the diaries and letters of soldiers of this most famous Victorian army. From the initial landings in an exotic land to the battles, the Charge of the Light Brigade and the final victorious assault, the story unfolds through the words of men - and women - who were there.

Author : Guy Arnold
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810866133

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Historical Dictionary of the Crimean War by Guy Arnold Pdf

For a relatively short war, the Crimean War holds an important place in history. Finally, a resource that provides a historical overview of the war from a number of different angles including, the causes, the motivations, the course, and the consequences. This volume fully explores the: o Main engagements o Principal political figures and rulers o Military leaders and naval commanders o Events leading up to the conflict This Dictionary is an excellent window into the political, national, and military intrigue that surrounded one of the most costly campaigns of all time. Includes a chronology, maps, and a comprehensive bibliography full of primary sources, as well as classic sources and histories that will allow researchers to trace the changing perception of the war through history.

Author : Orlando Figes
Publisher : Picador
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1250002524

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The Crimean War by Orlando Figes Pdf

From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" (Financial Times) comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age. The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Less well-known is that this savage war (1853-1856) killed almost a million soldiers and countless civilians; that it enmeshed four great empires—the British, French, Turkish, and Russian—in a battle over religion as well as territory; that it fixed the fault lines between Russia and the West; that it set in motion the conflicts that would dominate the century to come. In this masterly history, Orlando Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence. Drawing on untapped Russian and Ottoman as well as European sources, Figes vividly depicts the world at war, from the palaces of St. Petersburg to the holy sites of Jerusalem; from the young Tolstoy reporting in Sevastopol to Tsar Nicolas, haunted by dreams of religious salvation; from the ordinary soldiers and nurses on the battlefields to the women and children in towns under siege.. Original, magisterial, alive with voices of the time, The Crimean War is a historical tour de force whose depiction of ethnic cleansing and the West's relations with the Muslim world resonates with contemporary overtones. At once a rigorous, original study and a sweeping, panoramic narrative, The Crimean War is the definitive account of the war that mapped the terrain for today's world.

Author : Candan Badem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004182059

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“The” Ottoman Crimean War by Candan Badem Pdf

This book analyzes the Crimean War from the Ottoman perspective based mainly on Ottoman and Russian primary sources, and includes an assessment of the War s impact on the Ottoman state and Ottoman society.

Author : Lara Kriegel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108842228

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The Crimean War and its Afterlife by Lara Kriegel Pdf

Rescuing the Crimean War from the shadows, Lara Kriegel demonstrates the centrality of a Victorian war to the making of modern Britain.

Author : Lynn McDonald
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781554587476

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Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War by Lynn McDonald Pdf

Florence Nightingale is famous as the “lady with the lamp” in the Crimean War, 1854—56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale’s correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. This volume contains much on Nightingale’s efforts to achieve real reforms. Her well-known, and relatively “sanitized”, evidence to the royal commission on the war is compared with her confidential, much franker, and very thorough Notes on the Health of the British Army, where the full horrors of disease and neglect are laid out, with the names of those responsible.

Author : Sir Adolphus Slade
Publisher : London : Smith, Elder
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
ISBN : OXFORD:600075004

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Turkey and the Crimean War by Sir Adolphus Slade Pdf

Author : Ulrich Keller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134392025

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The Ultimate Spectacle by Ulrich Keller Pdf

Chloroform, telegraphy, steamships and rifles were distinctly modern features of the Crimean War. Covered by a large corps of reporters, illustrators and cameramen, it also became the first media war in history. For the benefit of the ubiquitous artists and correspondents, both the domestic events were carefully staged, giving the Crimean War an aesthetically alluring, even spectacular character. With their exclusive focus on written sources, historians have consistently overlooked this visual dimension of the Crimean War. Photo-historian Ulrich Keller challenges the traditional literary bias by drawing on a wealth of pictorial materials from scientific diagrams to photographs, press illustration and academic painting. The result is a new and different historical account which emphasizes the careful aesthetic scripting of the war for popular mass consumption at home.

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798629734222

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Crimean War by Hourly History Pdf

Discover the remarkable history of the Crimean War...The Crimean War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the nineteenth century, but it is also one of the least remembered. More men died in the Crimean War than in the American Civil War which followed soon after, but while the Civil War has been the subject of countless books, articles, and movies, the Crimean War has been virtually ignored. Part of the reason for this is that the causes of the Crimean War are not well understood. Just what made four empires go to war in the Black Sea in 1854? The outcome of the war was also partly responsible; it can be argued that the Crimean War changed nothing and that it is not at all clear why and for what half a million men died. Even the name by which this war is now known was not used at the time; until the twentieth century, this war was known in Britain as the Russian War. Yet the Crimean War is important for a number of reasons. Although it did not change the map of Europe and did not directly cause the fall of any of the combatants, it did indirectly shape the second half of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century in Europe. This war also introduced newspaper reporters and photographers who provided regular dispatches direct from the battlefield, something that became a feature of virtually every war which followed. The presence of these reporters gave the public some idea, almost for the first time, of what war was really like for the men who fought it. Although the Crimean War did not fundamentally change the world, nothing would be quite the same after its conclusion. This is the story of the Crimean War. Discover a plethora of topics such as The March to War The Charge of the Light Brigade Death, Disease, and the Lady with the Lamp Inkerman and the Death of the Tsar The Naval War The Fall of Sevastopol And much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on the Crimean War, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!

Author : Abraham Ascher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786071439

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Russia by Abraham Ascher Pdf

Distinguished Professor Abraham Ascher offers an impressive blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this perennially popular introduction to Russia. Newly updated on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia: A Short History begins with the origins of the first Slavic state, and continues to the present-day tensions between Russia and its neighbours, the rise of Vladimir Putin, and the increasingly complex relationship with the United States.