Full name: Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856

Author: Trevor Royle Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781403964168 1403964165

The Crimean War, one of history's most compelling subjects, encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and misadministration on a grand scale. It created a heroic myth out of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade and, in Florence Nightingale, it produced one of history's great heroes. The war was a watershed in world history and pointed the way to what mass warfare would be like in the twentieth century. New weapons were introduced; trench combat became a fact of daily warfare outside Sebastopol; medical innovation saved countless soldiers' lives that would otherwise have been lost. Ultimately, by failing to solve the Eastern Question, the war paved the way for the greater conflagration which broke out in 1914 and greatly prefigured the current situation in Eastern Europe. Similar books: Lancaster Against York by Trevor Royle The Reason Why by Cecil Woodham-Smith The Crimean War by Orlando Figes 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent Shattered Sword by Jonathan Parshall Mr. Kipling's Army by Byron Farwell Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan The Forgotten 500 by Gregory A. Freeman Dreadnought by Robert K. Massie A World Undone by G. J. Meyer The Arsenal of Democracy by A. J. Baime