Trevor Royle

Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The definitive history of the Crimean War from world-renowned historian Trevor Royle.

The Crimean War is one of history's most compelling subjects. It encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and maladministration on a grand scale. It created a heroic myth out of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade and, in Florence Nightingale, it produced one of history's great heroes. New weapons were introduced; trench combat became a fact of daily warfare outside Sebastopol; medical innovation saved countless soldiers' lives that would otherwise have been lost. The war paved the way for the greater conflagration which broke out in 1914 and greatly prefigured the current situation in Eastern Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466887855
• Artikelnr.: 42141069

Autorenporträt

Trevor Royle

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Prologue: 1851
Part I
A Churchwardens' Quarrel
Menshikov's Mission
Getting into Deep Waters
The Thousand and One Notes
Phoney War
The Affair at Sinope
Drifting Towards War
"Our Beautiful Guards"
Uneasy Partners
Opening Shots
Varna Interlude
Hurrah for the Crimea!
Part II
Advance to Contact
The Alma: The Infantry Will Advance
Missed Opportunities
Ladies with Lamps
Balaklava: A Cavalryman's Battle
Inkerman: An Infantryman's Battle
Arrival of General Winter
Muddle in Washington, Progress in Vienna
"Pam Enters the Fray"
Spring Stalemate
Todleben's Triumph
Spring Cruise, Summer Success
Trench Warfare: Massacre in the Redoubts
Sevastopol Falls
The Forgotten War: Kars and Erzerum
A Second Winter
Part III
Peace Feelers
Tying Up Some Loose Ends
Peacetime in Paris
The New World Order
Learning the Lessons the Hard Way
Epilogue: 1914