William Russell, special correspondent of the Times / introduced by Max Hastings ; edited by Roger Hudson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, William Howard, Sir, 1820-1907.

Contributor:

Hudson, Roger.

250th Library Anniversary Gifts from Other Nations (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russell, William Howard, Sir, 1820-1907.

Russell, William Howard.

Foreign correspondents--Great Britain--Biography.

Foreign correspondents.

War correspondents--Great Britain--Biography.

War correspondents.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (donor)

Physical Description:

xxvii, 426 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Folio Society, 1995.

Contents:

Sources

Introduction

1. The Crimean War 1854-6

2. The coronation of Czar Alexander II 1856

3. The Indian mutiny 1857-8

4. The American Civil War 1861-2

5. The marriage of the Prince of Wales 1863

6. The attempt to lay the Atlantic cable 1865

7. The battle of Königgrätz 1866

8. A visit to Egypt and Palestine 1869

9. The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1

10. With the Prince of Wales to India 1875-6

11. The Zulu War 1879

12. By train to the Wild West 1881

13. Egypt 1882

Index.

Notes:

Issued in slipcase.

Includes index.

OCLC:

39725666