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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 immortalised 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 correspondant, William Russell of the London Times - reports which served only to highlight the army's problems - and memorialises 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.

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The significance of the war; the causes of war; military background; the battlefield; the domestic front; closing phase; achievements; individual portraits.

The Crimean War: 1854–1856

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 19/01/2001
      ISBN13: 9781841761862, 978-1841761862
      ISBN10: 1841761869

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 immortalised 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 correspondant, William Russell of the London Times - reports which served only to highlight the army's problems - and memorialises 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.

      Table of Contents
      The significance of the war; the causes of war; military background; the battlefield; the domestic front; closing phase; achievements; individual portraits.

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