{"product_id":"the-crimean-war-a-history-9780805074604","title":"The Crimean War: A History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"the great storyteller of modern Russian historians,\" (\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e) the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale--these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Less well-known is that this savage war (1853-1856) killed almost a million soldiers and countless civilians; that it enmeshed four great empires--the British, French, Turkish, and Russian--in a battle over religion as well as territory; that it fixed the fault lines between Russia and the West; that it set in motion the conflicts that would dominate the century to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this masterly history, Orlando Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence. Drawing on untapped Russian and Ottoman as well as European sources, Figes vividly depicts the world at war, from the palaces of St. Petersburg to the holy sites of Jerusalem; from the young Tolstoy reporting in Sevastopol to Tsar Nicolas, haunted by dreams of religious salvation; from the ordinary soldiers and nurses on the battlefields to the women and children in towns under siege..\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal, magisterial, alive with voices of the time, \u003ci\u003eThe Crimean War\u003c\/i\u003e is a historical tour de force whose depiction of ethnic cleansing and the West's relations with the Muslim world resonates with contemporary overtones. At once a rigorous, original study and a sweeping, panoramic narrative, \u003ci\u003eThe Crimean War\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive account of the war that mapped the terrain for today's world..\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Metropolitan Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780805074604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.70w x 1.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2011 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/02\/2011 pg. 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2010 pg. 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2010 pg. 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/17\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/09\/2011 pg. 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/10\/2011 pg. 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/17\/2011 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Orlando Figes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36643908059292,"sku":"9780805074604","price":42.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2e49e940-7a1e-494a-a69c-9016c4b1a88b.jpg?v=1603857507","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-crimean-war-a-history-9780805074604","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}