The war from the death of Lord Raglan to the evacuation of the Crimea
During the Crimean War, the pioneering reports of the journalist William Howard Russell (1820-1907) shaped public opinion, helped bring down a government, and inspired the work of Florence Nightingale. This second volume of dispatches, published in 1856, concludes with poignant reflections on the me...
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Cambridge, NY
Cambridge University Press
2013
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Ominous changes; 2. The conquest of the line of the Tchernaya; 3. The Battle of the Tchernaya; 4. The lull before the storm; 5. The final bombardment; 6. Capture of the Malakhoff and attack on the Redan; 7. Day of the assault; 8. Capture of Sebastopol; 9. The interior of Sebastopol; 10. First fruits of victory; 11. Comfortable quarters; 12. Opportunities neglected; 13. Signs of a move; 14. Preparations for an expedition; 15. Off Odessa; 16. The capture of Kinburn; 17. The Bug and the Dneiper; 18. Sebastopol once more; 19. A catastrophe; 20. Relaxation; 21. Camp employments; 22. Destruction of the docks; 23. The armistice in the Crimea; 24. Peace once more in the Crimea; 25. Our graves in the Crimea, and the Alma revisited