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

by Figes, Orlando

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  • Hardcover

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, 4/12/2011 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Very Good. 2.0000 in x 9.4000 in x 6.4000 in. Hardcover with very good dust-jacket. Clean and solid. Ships from a smoke-free home. Jacket comes in a mylar wrapper.
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  • Title The Crimean War: A History
  • Author Figes, Orlando
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 608
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Metropolitan Books, New York
  • Date 4/12/2011 12:00:01 A
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000006487
  • 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)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress subjects Crimean War, 1853-1856
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010023152
  • Dewey Decimal Code 947.073

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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.