Crimean War

ISBN-13: 9781579583552 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 96 str.

John Sweetman;John Sweetman

Opis

The 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. 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 memorializes 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.

Recenzje

"A very useful resource, especially, but by no means exclusively, in school and college libraries...these books offer very useful standardised accounts and are presented in very attractive and approachable volumes." -- Reference Reviews

Spis treści

Part 1 Background to war; Chapter 1 Panorama of the conflict; Part 2 Warring sides; Chapter 2 Opposing forces; Part 3 Outbreak; Chapter 3 A just war; Part 4 The fighting; Chapter 4 The clash of arms; Part 5 Portrait of a soldier; Chapter 5 Captain Lewis Edward Nolan; Part 6 Portrait of a civilian; Chapter 6 Women at war; Part 7 How the war ended; Chapter 7 Guns fall silent; Part 8 Conclusion and consequences; Chapter 8 Counting the cost;

O autorze

Authored by Sweetman, John