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The Crimean War: A History
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Author
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Orlando Figes.
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Publisher
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Metropolitan
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.5
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6.4
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1.75
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ISBN
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9780805074604
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Pages/Publication Date
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576/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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30215
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Description
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(An Observer and Daily Telegraph Best Book of the Year) Though best remembered for the exploits of Florence Nightingale and Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade," the Crimean War (1853–1856), which enmeshed four great empires—the English, French, Turkish, and Russian—and resulted in nearly a million deaths, was as much a battle over religion as territory and would set in motion conflicts that would dominate the century to come. This history from a former recipient of the Wolfson History Prize and LA Times Book Prize, is a sweeping, panoramic narrative whose depiction of ethnic cleansing and the West's relations with the Muslim world resonates with contemporary overtones. "A stellar historian. As ever, Figes mixes strong narrative pace, a grand canvas and compelling ideas about current geopolitical tensions."—The Observer
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