The Crimean War : a history /

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Author / Creator:Figes, Orlando.
Uniform title:Crimea
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.
Description:xxiii, 576 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8385029
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ISBN:9780805074604 (hc.)
0805074600 (hc.)
Notes:"Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books, London, as 'Crimea'"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" comes the definitive account of the Crimean War, a forgotten war that shaped the modern age. Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence.