Crimea - Couverture rigide

Figes, Orlando

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0713997044 ISBN 13 : 9780713997040

Editeur : Allen Lane, 2010

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

A wonderful subject, on every level, and with Orlando Figes it has found the historian worthy of its width and depth (Norman Stone Standpoint )

Figes is a first class historian... [he] proves an excellent guide to the vagaries of the battlefield, the suffering of the ordinary soldiers and the way in which the war became a crucial part of late-Victorian patriotic mythology, contributing to a new ethos of muscular Christianity (Dominic Sandbrook Daily Telegraph )

A complex tale, told vividly (Economist )

Not only does Figes take care to tell the Russian side of the story where the fighting is concerned; he also gives a panoramic account of the political background, explaining the 'Eastern Question', the ambitions if the warmongering French ruler Napoleon III and, above all, the mentality of the Russian Tsars, Nicholas I and Alexander II, who began and ended the war ... An impressive piece of historical writing (Noel Malcolm Sunday Telegraph )

Figes' new work will remind readers of his gifts, keen judgement and mastery of sources. I have read better books about the British Army's role, but none that sets the war in its international context so well (Max Hastings Sunday Times )

Orlando Figes ... is back doing what he does best - telling us things about Russia and the world that we did not know, and proving that they are important to our understanding of the world today ... With his deep understanding of Russia and its uncomfortable opposition in the world, Figes elegantly underlines how the cold war of the Soviet era froze over fundamental fault lines that had opened up in the 19th century. (Angus Macqueen The Observer )

This is the only book on the Crimean War anyone could need. It is lucid, well-written, alive and sensitive. Above all, it tells us why this neglected conflict and its forgotten victims deserve our remembrance. (Oliver Bullough The Independent )

It is a fine stirring account, expertly balancing analysis with a patchwork of quotation from a wide variety of spectators and participants, together with an impressive narrative across the vast panoramic sweep of the war ... However, the books true originality lies in its unravelling of the Crimean War's religious origins. (Mark Bostridge Financial Times )

An insightful analysis envinces the relevance of a Victorian conflict to today's ills (A W Purdue Times Higher Education )

Keenly judged, vivid history of a bloody and pointless conflict (Sunday Times Culture )

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was also a war of religion, driven by a fervent, populist and ever more ferocious belief by the Tsar and his ministers that it was Russia’s task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land. Orlando Figes’ major new book reimagines this extraordinary war, in which the stakes could not have been higher and which was fought with a terrible mixture of ferocity and incompetence. It was both a recognisably modern conflict - the first to be extensively photographed, the first to employ the telegraph, the first ‘newspaper war’ - and a traditional one, with illiterate soldiers, amateur officers and huge casualties caused by disease. The iconic moments of the war - the Charge of the Light Brigade, the Siege of Sebastopol, the impact of Florence Nightingale - are all here, but there is also a rich sense of the Crimea itself and the culture that was destroyed by the fighting. Drawing on a huge range of fascinating sources, Figes also gives the lived experience of the war, from that of the ordinary British soldier in his snow-filled trench, to the haunted, gloomy, narrow figure of Tsar Nicholas himself as he vows to take on the whole world in his hunt for religious salvation.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Allen Lane
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0713997044
• ISBN 13: 9780713997040
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 608