Автор: John Sweetman
Название: The Crimean War: 1854-1856
Издательство: Oxford: Osprey
Год: 2001
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 96
Размер: 5,53 Мb
Язык: английский
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 correspondent, 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.
Contents
Chronology
Background to war
Panorama of the conflict
Warring sides
Opposing forces
Outbreak
A just war
The fighting
The clash of arms
Portrait of a soldier
Captain Lewis Edward Nolan
Portrait of a civilian
Women at war
How the war ended
Guns fall silent
Conclusion and consequences
Counting the cost
Further reading
Index