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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 Nightingalethese 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 empiresthe British, French, Turkish, and Russianin 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 Jeru

The Crimean War

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    Publisher: Picador
    Publication Date: 1/28/2012 12:02:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9781250002525, 978-1250002525
    ISBN10: 1250002524

    Number of Pages: 624

    Non Fiction , Military History , Non Fiction

    Description

    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 Nightingalethese 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 empiresthe British, French, Turkish, and Russianin 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 Jeru

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