From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," ( Financial Times ) the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age The 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 wel.
From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," ( Financial Times ) the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale--these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War
