The Crimean War (eBook)

Europe's Conflict with Russia

Hugh Small (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
240 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
9780750987424 (ISBN)

Infos

The Crimean War was the most destructive conflict of Queen Victoria's reign, the outcome of which was indecisive; most historians regard it as an irrelevant and unnecessary conflict despite its fame for Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the Light Brigade. Here Hugh Small shows how the history of the Crimean War has been manipulated to conceal Britain's – and Europe's – failure. The war governments and early historians combined to withhold the truth from an already disappointed nation in a deception that lasted over a century. Accounts of battles, still widely believed, gave fictitious leadership roles to senior officers. Careful analysis of the fighting shows that most of Britain's military successes in the war were achieved by the common soldiers, who understood tactics far better than the officer class and who acted usually without orders and often in contravention of them. Hugh Small's mixture of politics and battlefield narrative identifies a turning point in history, and raises disturbing questions about the utility of war.

Autor

HUGH SMALL is an acknowledged expert on the war in the Crimea and has appeared on Channel 4 News, BBC2, Sky News and contributed to History Today on the subject. He has also written Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel, due to be reissued by Robinson in summer 2017. www.hugh-small.co.uk

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.3.2018
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Black Sea • British Empire • Charge of the Light Brigade • Crimea • Crimean peninsula • crimea, russian empire, british empire, ottoman empire, french empire, second french empire, kingdom of sardinia, black sea, the black sea, crimean peninsula, sevastopol, turkey, sebastopol, florence nightingale, charge of the light brigade, ukraine, europe's conflict with russia • crimea, russian empire, british empire, ottoman empire, french empire, second french empire, kingdom of sardinia, black sea, the black sea, crimean peninsula, sevastopol, turkey, sebastopol, florence nightingale, charge of the light brigade, ukraine, europe's war with russia • europe's conflict with russia • Florence Nightingale • French Empire • Kingdom of Sardinia • Ottoman Empire • Russian Empire • Sebastopol • Second French Empire • Sevastopol • the Black Sea • Turkey • Ukraine
• ISBN-13: 9780750987424 / 9780750987424