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Crimea

By Orlando Figes

Crimea Film, Art & Culture

Crimea

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Orlando Figes' Crimea is a powerful history of the Crimean War, the conflict that dominated the nineteenth century. The Crimean War one of the fiercest battles in Russia's history, killing nearly a million men and completely redrawing the map of Europe. Pitting the Tsar's empire against an alliance of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire, it was the first conflict to use photography, the telegraph and newspapers; a war over territory, from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf; a war of religion, driven by a fervent, populistbelief by the Tsar and his ministers that it was Russia's task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land; it was the original 'total war'. Orlando Figes' vivid new book reinterprets this extraordinary conflict. Bringing to life ordinary soldiers in snow-filled trenches, surgeons on the battlefield and the haunted, fanatical figure of Tsar Nicholas himself, Crimea tells the human story of a tragic war. > Oliver Bullough, Independent > Max Hastings, Sunday Times > Mark Bostridge, Financial Times > Norman Stone, Standpoint > Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Peasant Russia, Civil War, A People's Tragedy, Natasha's Dance, The Whisperers and Just Send Me Word. His books have been translated into over twenty languages.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
608
Release Date:
2011-06-02
Publication Date:
2011-06-02
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0141013508
ISBN13:
9780141013503
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
449 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
200 cm
Thickness:
32 cm

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