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The Crimean War
A Reappraisal
By Philip Warner

Hard Cover, Taplinger Publishing Co, 1st Printing 1972. OUT OF PRINT
Condition: Mildew damage to dust jacket. See picture. Jacket has been eaten 
through at edge. Their are two small raisan sized spots on the back cloth 
cover.
Minor mildew spotting on the page edges. Minus the cover, the book is not in 
all that bad condition.


"For just over a hundred years the Crimean War," begins the author of this long 
overdue historical re-examination, "has been presented to the public as 
the classic model of military and medical blundering." He proceeds to demolish 
tlus consensus version of the War's history and notes that it succeeded 
in its major British aim of halting Russian expansion near the Black Sea. Mr. 
Warner, a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst 
(England), proves in this illustrated study that the myth of British losses in 
the Crimean War has been an exaggerated concoction created by pointing 
out a few military defeats and noting the legendary horror stories about the 
breakdown of medical service to the wounded Allies who seemingly could 
only get help from Florence Nightingale. From a military point of view, the 
image of the campaign as badly managed by the Allies is a particularly 
unwarranted generalization. The reality was that the British won the campaign 
despite the fact that they had to begin with an army badly neglected for 
forty years prior to the beginning of the Crimean conflict in 1854. British 
soldiers lived up to their reputation as an inspired fighting fbrce, however, 
and were ultimately able to join the French in defeating a Russian army that 
failed to take decisive advantage of its early military superiority.

The medical history of the War is also usually unfair to Allied efforts. Mr. 
Warner argues that the horrible plagues of the Crimean period actually 
occurred before doctors had adequate knowledge of how to curb the spread of 
bacteria and viruses. Mr. Warner also wrote The Medieval Castle: Life 
in a Fortress in Peace and War. -

Contents

Foreword
1 The Causes of the War
2 The Military Background
3 The Battle of the Alma
4 The March to Balaclava
5 The Baladava Battles
6 Inkerman
7 Everyday Life Before Sebastopol
8 The Russian Defences
9 Sebastopol - 1855 - the Main Battlc
10 The Fighting Men
11 The War Elsewhere
12 The Aftermath
Bibliography
Index


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