Written by the leading authority in the field, this study offers a fresh account of the Crimean War in its widest European and World contexts. Arguing that the modernity of the Crimean War has consistently been overlooked in comparison to the American Civil War, while in fact many of the battle-field technologies used in the latter were developed in the former, Baumgart probes the conflict's key issues: its origins and diplomacy, the war aims of the combatants, the capacity and characteristics of their armies, and the nature of the fighting itself.
- ISBN10 0340759607
- ISBN13 9780340759608
- Publish Date 27 August 1999
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 17 August 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Hodder Arnold
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English