Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854 1856

The Crimean War was a watershed in world history: it broke the long peace of 1815 and set in train the succession of European war and power-struggles which dominated the second half of the nineteenth century. It created a heroic myth out of the Charge of the Light Brigade, in Florence Nightingale produced one of history's great heroines, was the first conflict to be covered by the press and pointed the way to what mass warfare would be like in the twentienth century.Based on the diplomatic and military despatches of the period, many of them previously unseen, Trevor Royle's fascinating book is the first complete account of a war which helped to shape the modern world.