Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation

Sports & Outdoors

Lambert, Andrew D.

Winter Sports

Faber&Faber

This detailed study of British strategy during the Crimean War, from the Eastern crisis of March 1853 to the Treaty of Paris in May 1856, adopts a maritime perspective. It uses fresh archive material to focus on the fact that the Crimean invasion was solely in order to destroy the Russian fleet and base, not to capture territory. The pivotal role of the British Navy is examined, as well as the manner in which the British fleet, threatening St Petersburg in 1855, forced Russia to accept the allied terms. The text will be of interest to students and historians of strategy, diplomacy and 19th-century war and politics.

The Crimean War: British grand strategy, 1853-56 (War, armed forces, and society)

Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press

The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy, 1853-56 (War, Armed Forces and Society)

Manchester Univ Pr

During the Crimean War, for the first time, newspaper correspondents were able to provide the public with eye-witness accounts of the scenes of conflict. This book combines such first-hand descriptions from The Times of London with an authoritative discussion of the war, based on the latest historical scholarship. In the process a welcome reassessment of the war emerges.In addition to the famous accounts submitted by William Howard Russell all areas of the Black Sea theatre are covered, including the Sea of Azov, the Caucasus and Bulgaria, along with the other major theatre of war, the Baltic, where the Admiral Commander-in-Chief sometimes acted as Times correspondent. This marks a return to the contemporary perception of the war, where the whole conflict was observed, rather than the subsequent concentration on the heroism, incompetence and recovery on the few square miles of the Crimean Uplands that have come to dominate the modern image of the war. It is a curious irony that the instrument by which the illusion of a 'Crimean' War was created, the stark images published in The Times, should now be used to restore a due sense of proportion.The standards, objects and methods employed by the journalists in this, the first war to be covered in the modern sense, are also considered, making this a comprehensive account of the 'first newspaper war'.

The Crimean War (The War Correspondents)

History

Badsey, Stephen

Military

Sutton Pub Ltd

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