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by Paul Kerr
| Hardback in Very Good condition, in a Very Good Dust Jacket.
The book has black covering with gold lettering down spine. Complete with no damage.
The Dust Jacket has no nicks, tears or creases.
First published by Boxtree 1997, an imprint of Macmilan Publishers Ltd.
192 pages, illustrated with colour, black and white, drawings and photos.
19.5cm x 25.3cm x 2cm.
Weight: 875gms.
Front jacket picture: The capture of Sebastopol - a French view (unattributed).
back jacket pictures:
Top - Sebastopol from the sea, sketched from the deck of the HMS Sidon (William Simpson, 1855).
Bottom - Ismail Pasha and attendants (Roger Fenton, 1855).
The Crimean War (1853 - 56)
Raged for three years between Russia on one side and Turkey, France, Britain, and later Sardinia, on the other. It transformed the balance of power and the political complexion of a continent - indeed it was the crucible in which modern Europe was formed.
The only major conflict involving the Great Powers in the hundred years between Waterloo and the First World War, it changed Russia for ever, resulting in the freeing of the serfs and the first revolutionary stirrings; it destroyed a British government, reformed the medical and army establishments, and left a power vacuum at the heart of Europe that was swiftly exploited by Prussia with the creation of a unified Germany. Nothing would ever be the same again.
In many ways a war of innovation, it was the first to use railways, steamships, and the telegraph. Significantly for posterity, it was also the first war to be reported by a professional correspondent, 'The Times' William Howard Russell, the first to be photographed, and the first to which professional war artists were assigned.
'The Crimean War' uniquely combines an extraordinary visual history of this conflict with oral accounts, revealed for the first time in a remarkable number of eye-witness statements. These appear in the form of the letters and diaries of soldiers and sailors, doctors and nurses, artists and reporters, local inhabitants and tourists, and are drawn from all sides of the conflict.
The war that these eye-witnesses describes is not the conflict with which most of us are familiar. It is far from the mythic depictions of Tennyson and Hollywood, or the heroic tales of the Light Brigade and the Lady With the Lamp. Instead we are presented with an intimate and spectacularly illustrated history, which reveals the Crimean War as it has never before been seen.
Companion to the major television series on Channel 4 produced by Mentorn Barraclough Carey Productions Limited.
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Publisher: Boxtree
ISBN: 0752211129
Condition: VG / VG |
1997
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| Postage & Handling to UK mainland: £4.00 | Price: £7.00
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