Winfried Baumgart's masterful history of the Crimean War has been expanded and fully updated to reflect advances made in the field since the book's first publication. It convincingly argues that if the war had continued after 1856, the First World War would have taken place 60 years earlier, but that fighting ultimately ceased because diplomacy never lost its control over the use of war as an instrument in power politics. With 19 images, 13 maps and additional tables as well as a brand new chapters on 'the medical services', this expanded and fully-updated 2nd edition explores * The origins and diplomacy of the Crimean War * The war aims and general attitudes of the belligerent powers (Russia, France, and Britain), non-belligerent German powers (Austria and Prussia) and a selected number of neutral powers, including the United States * The characteristics and capabilities of the armies involved * The nature of the fighting itself The Crimean War: 1853-1856 examines the conflict in both its Europe-wide and global contexts, moving beyond the five great European powers to consider the role and importance of smaller states and theatres of war that have otherwise been under-served. To this end, it looks at fighting on the Danube front, the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Caucasian battlefield, as well as the White Sea and the Pacific, with final chapters devoted to the Paris peace congress of 1856, the end of the war and its legacy. This book remains the definitive study of one of the most important wars in modern history.

Der Krimkrieg wurde seit jeher intensiv erforscht; in jedem Jahr seit seinem Ausbruch bis heute erschienen ungezahlte Studien. Sie verrieten samtlich eine eingeschrankte, in der Regel nationale Perspektive. Die vorliegende Edition ermoglicht eine internationale Gesamtschau dieses Krieges, der wegen seiner Einbettung in die "orientalische Frage" in den folgenden 150 Jahren an Aktualitat nichts eingebusst hat und heute noch auf die vielfaltigste Weise fortlebt in der Weltpolitik allgemein, aber besonders an den heutigen politischen Brennpunkten des Nahen und mittleren Ostens, sei es in den Balkankonflikten, im Zypernkonflikt, im Palastina- oder gar im Irakdrama. Dieser Band schliesst die zwolfbandige Gesamtedition ab. Es werden anhand der englischen Amtsakten und diverser Nachlasse folgende grosseren Problemkreise dokumentiert: die Entscheidung der englischen (und der franzosischen Regierung) zum Krieg gegen Russland; die alliierte Feldzugsplanung fur 1854; das vergebliche Werben Englands und Frankreichs um den Kriegseintritt Schwedens; das ebenfalls erfolglose Werben der Westmachte und Russlands um den Kriegseintritt Preussens; die Politik Englands gegenuber Osterreich, die zwar zu keiner militarischen, aber doch immer enger werdenden politischen Zusammenarbeit fuhrte."

Anyone working with foreign language sources or writing in a foreign language needs to know the precise translation of historical terms. Winfried Baumgart has compiled around 16,500 terms in three languages, including terms from world history, the military, daily life, culture, medicine, and technology, as drawn from historical records, genealogies, and archives. The new edition includes 1,500 additional terms.

Winfried Baumgart's masterful history of the Crimean War has been expanded and fully updated to reflect advances made in the field since the book's first publication. It convincingly argues that if the war had continued after 1856, the First World War would have taken place 60 years earlier, but that fighting ultimately ceased because diplomacy never lost its control over the use of war as an instrument in power politics. With 19 images, 13 maps and additional tables as well as a brand new chapters on 'the medical services', this expanded and fully-updated 2nd edition explores * The origins and diplomacy of the Crimean War * The war aims and general attitudes of the belligerent powers (Russia, France, and Britain), non-belligerent German powers (Austria and Prussia) and a selected number of neutral powers, including the United States * The characteristics and capabilities of the armies involved * The nature of the fighting itself The Crimean War: 1853-1856 examines the conflict in both its Europe-wide and global contexts, moving beyond the five great European powers to consider the role and importance of smaller states and theatres of war that have otherwise been under-served. To this end, it looks at fighting on the Danube front, the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Caucasian battlefield, as well as the White Sea and the Pacific, with final chapters devoted to the Paris peace congress of 1856, the end of the war and its legacy. This book remains the definitive study of one of the most important wars in modern history.