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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