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The Crimean War: A History

The Crimean War: A History

The Crimean War: A History
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The Crimean War: A History Hardback - 2011

by Figes, Orlando

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From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," ("Financial Times") comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age. Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence.

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Metropolitan Books, 2011-04-11. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x0. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good dust jacket. Clear Text and Images. Free of any markings and no writings inside. Minor shelf-wear. Price sticker on back of dust jacket. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.
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  • Title The Crimean War: A History
  • Author Figes, Orlando
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 608
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Metropolitan Books, New York
  • Publication date 2011-04-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 230603002
  • ISBN 9780805074604 / 0805074600
  • Weight 2.35 lbs (1.07 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.7 x 1.8 in (23.88 x 17.02 x 4.57 cm)
  • Size 9x6x0
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Crimean War, 1853-1856
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010023152
  • Dewey Decimal Code 947.073
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age

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 (1853-1856) 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. Drawing on untapped Russian and Ottoman as well as European sources, Figes vividly depicts the world at war, from the palaces of St. Petersburg to the holy sites of Jerusalem; from the young Tolstoy reporting in Sevastopol to Tsar Nicolas, haunted by dreams of religious salvation; from the ordinary soldiers and nurses on the battlefields to the women and children in towns under siege..

Original, magisterial, alive with voices of the time, The Crimean War is a historical tour de force whose depiction of ethnic cleansing and the West's relations with the Muslim world resonates with contemporary overtones. At once a rigorous, original study and a sweeping, panoramic narrative, The Crimean War is the definitive account of the war that mapped the terrain for today's world..

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/15/2011, Page 17
  • Choice, 12/01/2011, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2011, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 11/01/2010, Page 47
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 11/01/2010, Page 47
  • New York Review of Books, 06/09/2011, Page 47
  • New York Times Book Review, 07/10/2011, Page 19
  • New Yorker (The), 05/02/2011, Page 78
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/17/2011, Page 0

About the author

Orlando Figes is the author of The Crimean War: A History, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia, Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, and A People's Tragedy, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. The recipient of the Wolfson History Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, among others, Figes is a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London.

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