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The Crimean War - Europe's Conflict with Russia (Paperback, New edition)
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The Crimean War - Europe's Conflict with Russia (Paperback, New edition)
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List price R547
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Discovery Miles 4 940
You Save R53 (10%)
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The Crimean War was the most destructive conflict of Queen
Victoria's reign, the outcome of which was indecisive; most
historians regard it as an irrelevant and unnecessary conflict
despite its fame for Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the
Light Brigade. Here Hugh Small shows how the history of the Crimean
War has been manipulated to conceal Britain's - and Europe's -
failure. The war governments and early historians combined to
withhold the truth from an already disappointed nation in a
deception that lasted over a century. Accounts of battles, still
widely believed, gave fictitious leadership roles to senior
officers. Careful analysis of the fighting shows that most of
Britain's military successes in the war were achieved by the common
soldiers, who understood tactics far better than the officer class
and who acted usually without orders and often in contravention of
them. Hugh Small's mixture of politics and battlefield narrative
identifies a turning point in history, and raises disturbing
questions about the utility of war.
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