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Crimean War A History

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ISBN-10: 1250002524

ISBN-13: 9781250002525

Edition: N/A

Authors: Orlando Figes

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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 (1853n1856) 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. Original, magisterial, alive with voices of the…    
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Book details

List price: $25.99
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 2/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English