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Informationen zum Autor Orlando Figes Klappentext From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" ( Financial Times ) comes 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 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. In 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.. Original, magisterial, alive with voices of the time, The Crimean War 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, The Crimean War is the definitive account of the war that mapped the terrain for today's world. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Plates ix List of Illustrations xiii Note on Dates and Proper Names xiv Acknowledgements xv Introduction xvii Maps xxv 1. Religious Wars 1 2. Eastern Questions 23 3. The Russian Menace 61 4. The End of Peace in Europe 100 5. Phoney War 130 6. First Blood to the Turks 165 7. Alma 200 8. Sevastopol in the Autumn 230 9. Generals January and February 278 10. Cannon Fodder 324 11. The Fall of Sevastopol 373 12. Paris and the New Order 411 Epilogue: The Crimean War in Myth and Memory 467 Notes 494 Select Bibliography 533 Index 541 ...
