The Crimean War - Russell, William Howard
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Armed with only a telescope, a watch, and a notebook he retrieved from a dead soldier, William Howard Russell spent twenty-two months reporting from the trenches for the Times of London during the Crimean War. A novice in a new field of journalismwar reportingwhen he first set off for Crimea in 1854, the young Irishman returned home a veteran of three bloody battles, having survived the siege of Sevastopol and watched a colleague die of cholera. Russells fine eye for detail electrified readers and his remarkably colorful accounts of battles provided those at homefor the first time everwith a…mehr

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Armed with only a telescope, a watch, and a notebook he retrieved from a dead soldier, William Howard Russell spent twenty-two months reporting from the trenches for the Times of London during the Crimean War. A novice in a new field of journalismwar reportingwhen he first set off for Crimea in 1854, the young Irishman returned home a veteran of three bloody battles, having survived the siege of Sevastopol and watched a colleague die of cholera. Russells fine eye for detail electrified readers and his remarkably colorful accounts of battles provided those at homefor the first time everwith a realistic picture of the brutality of war. The Crimean War, originally published in 1856 under the title The Complete History of the Russian War, presents a selection of Russells dispatchesas well as those of other embedded reportersproviding a ground-eye view of the conflict as presented in British newspapers.
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Angela Michelli Fleming, an award-winning history student at LSU, works as a research assistant in the Manship School of Mass Communication. John Maxwell Hamilton, a longtime public radio commentator, has reported in the United States and abroad for ABC Radio, the Christian Science Monitor, and others. He is dean and LSU Foundation Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University and the author or coauthor of five books.