Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856

by Royle, Trevor

• ISBN13: 9780312230791
• ISBN10: 0312230796
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-19
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Summary

The Crimean War is one of history's most compelling subjects. It encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and maladministration on a grand scale. It created a heroic myth out of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade and, in Florence Nightingale, it produced one of history's great heroes. New weapons were introduced; trench combat became a fact of daily warfare outside Sebastopol; medical innovation saved countless soldiers' lives that would otherwise have been lost. The war paved the way for the greater conflagration which broke out in 1914 and greatly prefigured the current situation in Eastern Europe.

Author Biography

Trevor Royle is a well-known, highly respected writer on the history of war and empire who has written many books. He is an Associate Editor of the Sunday Herald and he is a regular commentator on international affairs for BBC radio. He lives in Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Prologue: 1851	1	(14)
Part I
A Churchwardens' Quarrel	15	(19)
Menshikov's Mission	34	(16)
Getting into Deep Waters	50	(14)
The Thousand and One Notes	64	(13)
Phoney War	77	(14)
The Affair at Sinope	91	(12)
Drifting towards War	103	(13)
`Our Beautiful Guards'	116	(18)
Uneasy Partners	134	(15)
Opening Shots	149	(17)
Varna Interlude	166	(17)
Hurrah for the Crimea!	183	(20)
Part II
Advance to Contact	203	(14)
The Alma: The Infantry Will Advance	217	(15)
Missed Opportunities	232	(14)
Ladies with Lamps	246	(15)
Balaklava: A Cavalryman's Battle	261	(18)
Inkerman: An Infantryman's Battle	279	(16)
Arrival of General Winter	295	(14)
Muddle in Washington, Progress in Vienna	309	(17)
`Pam' Enters the Fray	326	(15)
Spring Stalemate	341	(17)
Todleben's Triumph	358	(15)
Spring Cruise, Summer Success	373	(16)
Trench Warfare: Massacre in the Redoubts	389	(12)
Sevastopol Falls	401	(15)
The Forgotten War: Kars and Erzerum	416	(17)
A Second Winter	433	(18)
Part III
Peace Feelers	451	(13)
Tying Up Some Loose Ends	464	(12)
Peacetime in Paris	476	(14)
The New World Order	490	(12)
Learning the Lessons the Hard Way	502	(13)
Epilogue: 1914	515	(10)
Bibliography	525	(8)
Notes and References	533	(16)
Index	549