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A Brief History of the Crimean War

Categorie	Algemeen Militaria
Boeknummer	#372059-ZE16
Titel	A Brief History of the Crimean War
Auteur	Troubetzkoy, Alexis
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0786718307
ISBN13	9780786718306
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	In September 1854, the armies of Britain, France and Turkey invaded Russia in what was to become the Crimean War. In the months that followed over half a million soldiers fell. They died from bullet wounds and shrapnel, cholera and disease, starvation and freezing in a medieval conflict fought in a modern age. But what is rarely appreciated is that this extraordinary struggle was fought not only in the Crimea, but also along the Danube, but in the Arctic Ocean, in the Baltic and Pacific. Few wars in history reveal more confusion of purpose or have had greater unintended consequences. Alexis Troubezkoy's new history traces the causes of this most senseless of wars and sketches a vivid picture of the age which made it possible, interweaving descriptions of the Russian, Turkish and British ar... (Lees verder)mies with the principals of the drama — Napoleon III, Marshal St. Arnaud, Lord Raglan, the great Russian engineer Todleban, Florence Nightingale, Nicholas I, and his magnificently terrible Russian empire.
Pagina's	331
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 9,00

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