Name: The Crimean War: A History
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Author: Orlando Figes
ISBN: 9781250002525

Type

Physical Book

Author

Orlando Figes

Publisher

Picador

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

624

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.60 kg.

ISBN

1250002524

ISBN13

9781250002525

Synopsis "The Crimean War: A History "

From the great storyteller of modern Russian historians (Financial Times) comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age. The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale--these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Less well-known is that this savage war (1853-1856) killed almost a million soldiers and countless civilians; that it enmeshed four great empires--the British, French, Turkish, and Russian--in a battle over religion as well as territory; that it fixed the fault lines between Russia and the West; that it set in motion the conflicts that would dominate the century to come. In this masterly history, Orlando Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence. Drawing on untapped Russian and Ottoman as well as European sources, Figes vividly depicts the world at war, from the palaces of St. Petersburg to the holy sites of Jerusalem; from the young Tolstoy reporting in Sevastopol to Tsar Nicolas, haunted by dreams of religious salvation; from the ordinary soldiers and nurses on the battlefields to the women and children in towns under siege.. Original, magisterial, alive with voices of the time, The Crimean War is a historical tour de force whose depiction of ethnic cleansing and the West's relations with the Muslim world resonates with contemporary overtones. At once a rigorous, original study and a sweeping, panoramic narrative, The Crimean War is the definitive account of the war that mapped the terrain for today's world.

Orlando Figes

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Orlando Figes (London, 1959) is a British historian, naturalized German in 2017, specialized in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and was a professor at Trinity College and Birkbeck College of the University of London until his retirement in 2022. He is known for his narrative and accessible approach in works of cultural and political history, and has been a member of the Royal Society of Literature since 2003.

Among his most notable books are The Tragedy of a People: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 (1996), awarded the Wolfson Prize; Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia (2002); The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (2007); and The Story of Russia (2022). His works have been translated into more than thirty languages and have been recognized for their analytical depth and literary style.

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