The Story of the Campaign of Sebastopol: Written in the Camp

Edité par Greenwood Press, New York, New York, 1968

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Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Gray cloth with silver lettering on the spine and a silver illustration on the front board. 339 informative and historical pages of text and 9 wonderful pages of historic black and white illustratios! "Excerpt: . CHAPTER XXXII. A RETROSPECT. Thus by main force, strength matched against strength, " in plain and even shock of battle," France and England had pushed Russia from her stronghold. Such has been the course of the campaign, so peculiar and exceptional, that it is not easy to say what military lessons have been derived from its incidents, or what advance in soldiership has been gained by our army, beyond the experience of encamping in the field in presence of an enemy. But from our present stand-point of an appreciable result we may at least survey comprehensively and clearly the events of the campaign, and trace with something like certainty the circumstances which produced them. The questions of the merits of the policy pursued up to the time of the departure from Varna, and the amount of neglect attributable to the Government in allowing the expedition to depart with such slender preparation, are such as persons conversant with public business at home are most competent to decide. Admitting that the state of public feeling in the summer of 1854 rendered some enterprise necessary, and that the capture of Sebastopol, as solving one of the principal problems of the war, was an object of first-rate importance, we may, by pursuing the course of affairs from the commencement of the expedition to its crisis, compare the means with which the attempt was made with the chances of success. No objections have been made to the conduct of affairs up to the battle of the Alma. Some critics have objected to the tactics of the Allies on that occasion. Certainly nothing could well be simpler or less scientific than the plan of attack ; but the moral effect produced on the Russians by the gallantry of the advance, preventing, as it probably did, the defence of either the Katcha or." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
The Story of the Campaign of Sebastopol: Written in the Camp
Auteur
Hamley, E. Bruce
Éditeur
Greenwood Press, New York, New York
Année de publication
1968
État de l'article
Good
Jaquette
No Jacket
Type de livre
Ex-Library
Reliure
Gray Cloth
Édition
Reprint.
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