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050 00 $aDK214$b.F53 2010
082 00 $a947/.0738$222
100 1 $aFiges, Orlando.
240 10 $aCrimea
245 14 $aThe Crimean War :$ba history /$cOrlando Figes.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bMetropolitan Books,$c2010.
300 $axxiii, 576 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
500 $a"Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books, London, as 'Crimea'"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aReligious wars -- Eastern questions -- The Russian menace -- The end of peace in Europe -- Phoney war -- First blood to the Turks -- Alma -- Sevastopol in the autumn -- Generals January and February -- Cannon fodder -- The fall of Sevastopol -- Paris and the new order -- The Crimean War in national myth and memory.
520 $aFrom "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" comes the definitive account of the Crimean War, a forgotten war that shaped the modern age. Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence.
650 0 $aCrimean War, 1853-1856.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010023152-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010023152-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010023152-s.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010023152-t.html