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Crimea 1854-56
This war is most important, as it was the only conflict fought by Britain against a modern European power between 1815 and 1914 and was characterised by major military incompetence. The war proved that, although the British Army was well-suited to Colonial warfare, there were serious deficiencies, particularly in generalship and in supply organisation, during a war with a modernising enemy. However, the war was redeemed by the fine fighting of junior officers and men, the battle of Inkerman being a classic example of this. There were a number of causes of the war, the main one being British fears of Russian expansion through the Dardanelles into the eastern Mediterranean, occasioned by the decay of the Turkish Ottoman empire 'The sick man of Europe'. In alliance against Russia with France, Turkey and Piedmont the British expedition landed in the Crimea in September 1854, and four days later stormed the Russian position at the Alma River. After a severe battle, the Russians retreated into Sebastopol, but the Allies allowed them to escape. The British set up camp at Balaklava, where on 25th October 1854 they were attacked by the Russians. The ensuing battle is famous for the Charge of the Light and Heavy Brigades, and the action fought by the 93rd Highlanders ('the thin red line'). Ten days later another major battle was fought at Inkerman, in which troops took part in hand-to-hand fighting for many hours, both sides suffering very heavy casualties. There followed a long, ten month siege, during which there were several major assaults on the fortified port of Sebastapol. Eventually the city fell, peace was concluded and the Allies withdrew their troops. The Crimean war is also memorable for the emergence of the modern newspaper correspondent in the form of William Henry Russell, whose graphic dispatches in The Times described the war in unflinching terms and did not spare criticism of the British commanders. In medical history it saw the beginnings of modern nursing, carried out by women under the redoubtable Florence Nightingale, 'the lady with the lamp' whose hospital at Scutari saved many lives once she had won her battle for hygiene with her male colleagues.
Crimea 1854-56
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RAGLAN
From The Peninsular To The Crimea
Product Code: 21926
A revisionist military biography of Lord Raglan, one-armed Peninsular War and Waterloo veteran and C-in-C of the British Army in the ill-starred Crimean campaign of the 1850s. John Sweetman argues that Raglan has been unfairly blamed for the failures of an antiquated system, and in fact acquitted...
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MRS DUBERLY’S WAR
Journal And Letters From The Crimea 1854-6
Product Code: 21830
A justly famous account of the Crimean War, written by the only British officer's wife to witness the whole war.
Fanny Duberly was bold, flirtatious, rash and fearless, and her book - published for the first time since the original bestselling editions - remains a vivid and hard-hitting war memoi...
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GUARDS BRIGADE IN THE CRIMEA
Product Code: 20723
The only work devoted to the actions of the Guards Brigade in the Crimean War, it is a fascinating approach to this bitterly fought conflict. This war is most important, as it was the only conflict fought by Britain against a modern European power between 1815 and 1914.
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CAVALRYMAN IN THE CRIMEA
The Letters of Temple Godman, 5th Dragoon Guards
Product Code: 21453
A young cavalry officer's letters home from the Crimean War. Written with vivid frankness, Temple Godman's descriptions cover battles ( he charged at Balaklava) hospitals, the deficiencies of the high command and press reporting - along with the pain and sorry of losing comrades. Remarkably Godma...
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Despatches from the Crimea
Product Code: 21054
William Russell's searing war reports from the Crimea pioneered modern war reporting, sped much needed army reforms, and inspired Florence Nightingale to begin modern nursing there. This is then both a historical document and a fine piece of war writing which still steams with the indignation of ...
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LOYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT 1741- 1914
Product Code: 21213
Definitive history of one of the British Army's most famous names - the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment - from their foundation in 1741 to the eve of the Great War. Covers the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, Quebec, the US War of Independence, the Peninsular War and the Crimea.
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HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE QUEEN’S OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS 1793 - 1885
Product Code: 21206
Regimental history of a Scottish unit, first raised in 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars, which saw service in Egypt, the Peninsular War, the Waterloo campaign, the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. In the 1880s - when this history was first published - the regiment took part in the Ni...
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A BEARSKIN’S CRIMEA
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Percy VC And His Brother Officers
Product Code: 20970
A vivid and sharply-observed diary of the Crimean War written by a Grenadier Guards officer present at every major action - the battles of the Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman and the Siege of Sebastopol. The author, Lt. Col. the Hon. Henry Percy, won one of the earliest VCs for his gallantry during...
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