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7 de out. de 2010 · If the term the Crimean War does scant justice to the conflict's causes or geographical reach, certainly the Crimea became its main killing field. The death toll of at least 800,000, the trench warfare that marked the siege of Sebastopol, and the roles, in Britain and France, of the press and public opinion lead Figes to characterise it as, in many ways, "the first example of a truly modern war".
1 de out. de 2010 · Orlando Figes’ The Crimean War (published in the UK as Crimea: The Last Crusade) brings new perspective to that most baffling of 19th Century conflicts. Figes sketches the background of 19th Century imperial rivalries: religious disputes in the Holy Land, the decline of the Ottoman Empire, Britain’s fear of Russian imperialism, France’s Napoleon III seeking to strengthen his shaky throne ...
Crimea - The Last Crusade. The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least a million men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge ...
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Author (s) : FIGES Orlando. The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge ...
The game failed and the lumbering giants engaged one another, for want of another battlefield, in the Crimea. So far, so 19th century - but as the book goes on, Figes subtly isolates parallels ...
The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was also a war of ...
