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Book Crimean Blunder

Download or read book Crimean Blunder written by Peter Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Illustrated History of the War Against Russia   Plates

Download or read book The Illustrated History of the War Against Russia Plates written by Edward Henry Nolan and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crimean Blunder

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  • Author : Peter Gibbs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Crimean Blunder written by Peter Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Illustrated History of the War Against Russia

Download or read book The Illustrated History of the War Against Russia written by Edward Henry Nolan and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Crimean War

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  • Author : Hugh Small
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2018-03-19
  • ISBN : 0750987421
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book The Crimean War written by Hugh Small and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crimean War was the most destructive conflict of Queen Victoria's reign, the outcome of which was indecisive; most historians regard it as an irrelevant and unnecessary conflict despite its fame for Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the Light Brigade. Here Hugh Small shows how the history of the Crimean War has been manipulated to conceal Britain's – and Europe's – failure. The war governments and early historians combined to withhold the truth from an already disappointed nation in a deception that lasted over a century. Accounts of battles, still widely believed, gave fictitious leadership roles to senior officers. Careful analysis of the fighting shows that most of Britain's military successes in the war were achieved by the common soldiers, who understood tactics far better than the officer class and who acted usually without orders and often in contravention of them. Hugh Small's mixture of politics and battlefield narrative identifies a turning point in history, and raises disturbing questions about the utility of war.

Book The Crimean War

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  • Author : John Grehan
  • Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
  • Release : 2014-03-30
  • ISBN : 1399062743
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book The Crimean War written by John Grehan and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crimean War was a conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, British Empire, Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. Most of the conflict took place on the Crimean Peninsula, but there were smaller campaigns in western Anatolia, the Caucasus, the Baltic Sea, the Pacific Ocean and the White Sea. The Crimean War is known for the logistical and tactical errors during the land campaign on both sides (the naval side saw a successful Allied campaign which eliminated most of the ships of the Russian Navy in the Black Sea). Nonetheless, it is sometimes considered to be one of the first modern wars as it introduced technical changes which affected the future course of warfare, including the first tactical use of railways and the electric telegraph. It is also famous for the work of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole, who pioneered modern nursing practices while caring for wounded British soldiers. The war also led to the establishment of the Victoria Cross in 1856 (backdated to 1854), the British Army's first universal award for valor. The Crimean War was one of the first wars to be documented extensively in photographs. News correspondence reaching Britain from the Crimea was the first time the public were kept informed of the day-to-day realities of war. This unique collection of images will prove to be an invaluable resource for historians, students and all those interested in what was one of the most significant periods in British military history. Each picture will tell its own story, and will be fully captioned with historical detail.

Book The Great War With Russia     The Invasion Of The Crimea   A Personal Retrospect

Download or read book The Great War With Russia The Invasion Of The Crimea A Personal Retrospect written by Sir William Howard Russell and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Illustrated with over two hundred and sixty maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Crimean War] “The journalist William Howard Russell (1820–1907) is sometimes regarded as being the first war correspondent, and his reports from the conflict in the Crimea are also credited with being a cause of reforms in the British military system. This account of his time there, first published in 1858 and expanded in this 1895 edition, explains how Russell was sent by The Times of London in 1854 to join British troops stationed in Malta. He spent the next two years witnessing some of the key moments of the war, including the battle of Balaclava and the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade. His newspaper reports of the fighting and of the living conditions for the troops were widely read and very influential. In this retrospective work, Russell gives a more personal narrative of his experiences, making this an important account of one the most brutal wars of the nineteenth century.”-Cambridge Ed.

Book The War in the Crimea  with Portraits and Plates

Download or read book The War in the Crimea with Portraits and Plates written by Sir Edward Bruce Hamley and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of the Campaign

Download or read book The Story of the Campaign written by Sir Edward Bruce Hamley and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Crimean War

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  • Author : Andrew D. Lambert
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1409410129
  • Pages : 397 pages

Download or read book The Crimean War written by Andrew D. Lambert and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal work focuses on British grand strategy, the development and implementation of national policy and strategy. With a revised introduction contextualizing the 1990 text, and the addition of a bibliography, the book is available to a new generation of scholars, and situated in the historiography of the Crimean War.

Book The Crimean War

Download or read book The Crimean War written by William Howard Russell and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 journalism -- war reporting -- when he first set off for Crimea in 1854, the young Irishman returned home a veteran of three bloody battles, having survived the siege of Sebastopol and watched a colleague die of cholera. Russell's fine eye for detail electrified readers, and his remarkably colorful and hugely significant accounts of battles provided those at home -- for the first time ever -- with 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 Russell's dispatches -- as well as those of other embedded reporters -- providing a ground-eye view of the conflict as depicted in British newspapers. Fought on the southern tip of the Crimea from 1853 to 1856, the Crimean War raged on far longer than either side expected -- largely because of mismanagement and disease: more soldiers died from cholera, typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and scurvy than battle wounds. Russell's biting criticisms of incompetent military authorities and an antiquated military system contributed to the collapse of the contemporary ruling party in Britain. In his reports, Russell wrote extensively about inept medical care for the wounded, which he termed "human barbarity." Thanks to compelling accounts by Russell and others, authorities allowed Florence Nightingale to enter the war zone and nurse troops back to health. The Crimean War contains reports from military men who acted as part-time reporters, articles by professional journalists, and letters from others at the front that newspapers back home later published. Rapidly pulled together by American publisher John G. Wells, the volume presents a fascinating contemporary analysis of the war by those on the ground. This reissue offers a new introduction by Angela Michelli Fleming and John Maxwell Hamilton that places these reports in context and highlights the critical role they played during a pivotal point in European history. The first first-hand accounts of the realities of war, these dispatches set the tone for future independent war reporting.

Book A Short History of the Crimean War

Download or read book A Short History of the Crimean War written by Trudi Tate and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war artists, recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera. In her new short history, Trudi Tate discusses the ways in which this novel representation itself became part of the modern war machine. She tells forgotten stories about the war experience of individual soldiers and civilians, including journalists, nurses, doctors, war tourists and other witnesses. At the same time, the war was a retrograde one, fought with the mentality, and some of the equipment, of Napoleonic times. Tate argues that the Crimean War was both modern and old-fashioned, looking backwards and forwards, and generating optimism and despair among those who lived through it. She explores this paradox while giving full coverage to the bloody battles (Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman), the siege of Sebastopol, the much-derided strategies of the commanders, conditions in the field and the cultural impact of the anti-Russian alliance.

Book The Campaign in the Crimea

Download or read book The Campaign in the Crimea written by George Brackenbury and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Origins of the Crimean War

Download or read book The Origins of the Crimean War written by David M. Goldfrank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crimean War (1853-56) between Russia, Turkey, Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia was a diplomatically preventable conflict for influence over an unstable Near and Middle East. It could have broken out in any decade between Napoleon and Wilhelm II; equally, it need never have occurred. In this masterly study, based on massive archival research, David Goldfrank argues that the European diplomatic roots of the war stretch far beyond the `Eastern Question' itself, and shows how the domestic concerns of the participants contributed to the outbreak of hostilities.

Book The Crimean War

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  • Author : Philip Warner
  • Publisher : New York : Taplinger Publishing Company
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book The Crimean War written by Philip Warner and published by New York : Taplinger Publishing Company. This book was released on 1973 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crimean War is famous as a source of heroic and horrific legend. Philip Warner’s concern in his reassessment of the campaign has been to uncover the true course of the war, to place the heroics in their proper context and to show how General Simpson’s description of the assault on the Redan can be applied to the whole war. Warner also brings together the initial strands of the conflict and its escalation to involve many of the Great Powers of the day. He is also able to bring in the other locations of the conflict as the two sides poured men and resources into containing the other. The author, Philip Warner, quotes extensively from contemporary sources and especially from previously unpublished Allied and Russian soldiers letters and diaries which provide haunting glimpses of the realities of war. His expert knowledge of fortification and siege warfare and his understanding of nineteenth century armies have combined to make this book both a valuable work of scholarship and an intensely readable account of the battles.

Book The Crimean War from First to Last

Download or read book The Crimean War from First to Last written by Sir Daniel Lysons and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... of it. We have no other news; everything is getting very stupid now. It will be a great relief to get away from here. I have been staring at this camp and Sebastopol quite long enough; I am tired of it. To His Mother. Camp (in a profound state of peace), loth April 1856. At last we have got some mild weather. Yesterday was warm and fine; to-day is finer still; the snow is fast disappearing from the mountains. We know nothing as yet of our destinations; the speculations are various. Every preparation is being made for a move in any direction that may be ordered; stores are being embarked, transports got ready, etc. All restriction is now taken off as to boundary. We are allowed to go where we like, so are the Russians. Officers come from them to see our reviews, we go to see theirs, and great cordiality exists between the armies. We hear the Russians are suffering sadly from fever. They are badly off for everything, and come in crowds to our markets to buy provisions. To - day I have the arrangement of the army rifle matches. To-morrow I am going a long ride over to the north side. I have no particular news of any sort to tell you. I have just received my outfit for the ensuing campaign -- that is not to come off; however, many of the things will be useful. I have got a very good telescope that I wanted, at any rate, and money is by no means scarce with me; my balance still increases. To His Sister. Camp, l%th April 1856. I have two or three small particles of news to. boil up for a letter. No. I. The day before yesterday I started off with Duff for a long ride into Russian Crimea. We passed over the Traktir bridge and crossed the valley in the direction of M'Kenzie's farm, but, instead of ascending the heights, we kept round by a valley...