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The Crimean War: Queen Victoria’s War with the Russian Tsars

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The Crimean War: Queen Victoria’s War with the Russian Tsars. A military history publication. Of interest to the military historian.

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In the winter of 1854, Britain, France, and Turkey, with Europe-wide support, invaded Russia and besieged the fortress of Sebastopol in Crimea. It was the most destructive conflict of the century, with total fatalities comparable to those of the American Civil War. Hugh Small, whose biography of Florence Nightingale first exposed the truth about her wartime hospital, now shows how the history of the Crimean War was manipulated to conceal Britain’s and Europe’s failure. Only since the collapse of the Soviet Union has it become clear how much was at stake in Crimea. The failure of Britain’s politicians to control their generals led to the collapse of the peacekeeping arrangements of the “Concert of Europe” a sort of early UN Security Council. Russian expansion continued unchecked, leading to the divisions seen today in Ukraine and the Caucasus. Small is equally revealing about the battles. His carefully-researched account of the famous Charge of the Light Brigade overturns the standard account that it was a blunder by senior officers. It was the ordinary cavalrymen who insisted on it  as the Commander-in-Chief admitted in Parliament at the time.

Author: Hugh Small
Publisher: Tempus Publishing
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN: 9780752443881 / 0752443887
Format: Softcover
Number of Pages: 221

Condition: Good, shelf worn with bumping to the corners

Inventory Number: 12C

Hardcover

Inv. No: 21A

Weight 1 kg

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