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ISBN: | 9780805074604 (hc.) 0805074600 (hc.)
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Notes: | "Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books, London, as 'Crimea'"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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