The Crimean War: 1854-1856 (Essential Histories) - Softcover

Sweetman, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841761869 ISBN 13: 9781841761862

Publisher: Osprey Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

This bitter war between Russia and Turkey, aided by Britain and France, was the setting for the stuff of legends. This book details the gallant yet suicidal Charge of the Light Brigade, now immortalised in film: in the words of Tennyson, 'Into the Valley of Death rode the Six Hundred'. It relates the reports made by the first real war correspondant, William Russell of the London Times - reports which served only to highlight the army's problems - and memorialises the heroic deeds of Florence Nightingale, who struggled to save young men from the most formidable enemy in the Crimean War: not the Russians, but cholera.

About this title

Product Description:

Physical description; 95p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps, ports. ; 25 cm. Subject; Crimean War, 1853-1856.

Review:

"A very useful resource, especially, but by no means exclusively, in school and college libraries...these books offer very useful standardised accounts and are presented in very attractive and approachable volumes."
-"Reference Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: Osprey Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1841761869
• ISBN 13: 9781841761862
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96