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Crimea: The Last Crusade is a book by Orlando Figes. Figes argued that the Crimean War was the first truly modern war and that the Siege of Sevastopol was a precursor of trench warfare. He also emphasized the religious aspects of the Crimean War and the importance of public opinion.
- Orlando Figes
- 2010
2 ago 2022 · 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.
Orlando Figes' vivid new book reinterprets this extraordinary conflict. Bringing to life ordinary soldiers in snow-filled trenches, surgeons on the battlefield and the haunted, fanatical figure of Tsar Nicholas himself, Crimea tells the human story of a tragic war.
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Books. Crimea: The Last Crusade. Orlando Figes. Allen Lane, 2010 - History - 575 pages. The Crimean War dominated the mid 19th century, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a...
29 ott 2010 · Orlando Figes's thesis is that Crimea was, for all sides, the last crusade. He sets his account in contradistinction to the work of other historians by saying that his is the first to...
1 ott 2010 · 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.
1 gen 2011 · 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.
- Orlando FIGES
