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Crimea
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Orlando Figes
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Orlando Figes' Crimea is a powerful history of the Crimean War, the
conflict that dominated the nineteenth century. The Crimean War one
of the fiercest battles in Russia's history, killing nearly a
million men and completely redrawing the map of Europe. Pitting the
Tsar's empire against an alliance of Britain, France and the
Ottoman Empire, it was the first conflict to use photography, the
telegraph and newspapers; a war over territory, from the Balkans to
the Persian Gulf; a war of religion, driven by a fervent,
populistbelief by the Tsar and his ministers that it was Russia's
task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land; it
was the original 'total war'. Orlando Figes' vivid new book
reinterprets this extraordinary conflict. Bringing to life ordinary
soldiers in snow-filled trenches, surgeons on the battlefield and
the haunted, fanatical figure of Tsar Nicholas himself, Crimea
tells the human story of a tragic war. 'Lucid, well-written, alive
and sensitive, it tells us why this neglected conflict and its
forgotten victims deserve our remembrance' Oliver Bullough,
Independent 'Figes paints a vivid portrait of a bloody and
pointless conflict ... he knows more about Russia than any other
historian' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'A fine, stirring account'
Mark Bostridge, Financial Times 'A wonderful subject, on every
level, and with Orlando Figes it has found the historian worthy of
its width and depth' Norman Stone, Standpoint 'Figes is a
first-class historian, as his splendid new book amply demonstrates'
Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph Orlando Figes is Professor of
History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author
of Peasant Russia, Civil War, A People's Tragedy, Natasha's Dance,
The Whisperers and Just Send Me Word. His books have been
translated into over twenty languages.
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On War
(Paperback)
Carl Von Clausewitz
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Discovery Miles 4 980
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In 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on the island of St. Helena to
begin his imprisonment following Waterloo. By 1821 he was dead.
During his brief stay, he crossed paths with six medical men, all
of whom would be changed by the encounter, whether by court
martial, the shame of misdiagnosis, or resulting celebrity. What
would seem to be a straightforward post became entangled with
politics, as Governor Hudson Lowe became paranoid as to the
motivations of each doctor and brought their every move into
question. In Napoleon's Poisoned Chalice, Martin Howard addresses
the political pitfalls navigated with varying success by the men
who were assigned to care for the most famous man in Europe. The
hostility that sprang up between individuals thrown together in
isolation, the impossible situations the doctors found themselves
in and the fear of censure when Napoleon finally began to die.
The second volume shines a light on the cultural and social changes
that took place during the epoch of European Restorations, when the
death of the Napoleonic empire existed as a crucial moment for
contemporaries. Expanding the transnational approach of Volume I,
the chapters focus on the transmutation of ordinary experiences of
war into folklore and popular culture, the emergence of grassroots
radical politics and conspiracies on the Left and Right, and the
relationship between literacy and religion, with new cases included
from Spain, Norway and Russia. A wide-ranging and impressive work,
this book completes a collection on the history of the European
Restorations.
Europe's Restorations were characterised by their evolving
dialectics. The chapters in this first volume address the key
questions and controversies of Napoleonic history from a national
and international perspective. From the re-ordering of the European
world through the tools of intervention, occupation and diplomacy,
to the creation of new constitutional monarchies across France,
Scandinavia and Germany the volume outlines the processes that
realigned national priorities and the accompanying dynamics of
social and political identity. In a structure that makes sense of
what Luigi Mascilli Migliorini describes as the 'fiendishly
complex' process of reconstructing order in post-Napoleonic Europe,
this collection of essays brings together experts in the field to
set a new precedent for transnational research frameworks in the
study of the European Restorations.
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