The Crimean War is one of history's most compelling subjects. It encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and maladministration 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. 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. The war paved the way for the greater conflagration which broke out in 1914 and greatly prefigured the current situation in Eastern Europe.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 05/19/2000
ISBN: 9780312230791
Pages: 596
Weight: 2.22lbs
Size: 9.49h x 6.47w x 1.52d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/01/2000 pg. 59
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2000 pg. 619
Booklist 05/01/2000 pg. 1647
Library Journal 05/15/2000 pg. 108
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 27
New York Times 01/07/2001 pg. 24
New York Times 06/03/2001 pg. 28
New York Times 12/02/2001 pg. 68