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The Crimean War: 1854-1856

By John Sweetman

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Year
2001
ISBN
1841761869, 9781841761862
Open Library ID
OL8922167M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7253015 bytes)
Series
Essential Histories 002
Edition
illustrated edition
Pages
96\96
Topic
History
Library
infanata
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
Исторические дисциплины;История России;Новая истор

Description

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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