The Crimean War : 1853-1856 / Winfried Baumgart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baumgart, Winfried, author.

Series:

Modern wars

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crimean War, 1853-1856.

Crimean War, 1853-1856--Campaigns.

Military campaigns.

Physical Description:

xiii, 297 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Crimean War, 1853-1856

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Contents:

Part 1 Origins and Diplomacy of the War

1 The real cause of the war - the Eastern Question p. 3

2 Diplomacy during the war, 1853-6 p. 11

Part 2 The Belligerents and the Non-Belligerents

3 The war aims of the belligerents p. 29

4 The non-belligerent German powers: Austria and Prussia p. 39

5 The neutral powers p. 49

Part 3 The Armies of the Belligerents

6 Russia p. 67

8 Great Britain p. 81

9 Turkey p. 93

10 Sardinia p. 97

Part 4 The War

11 The Danube front, 1853-4 p. 103

12 The Black Sea theatre p. 125

13 The campaigns in the Baltic, 1854 and 1855 p. 179

14 The Caucasian battlefield, 1853-5 p. 189

15 The minor theatres of war: the White Sea and the Pacific p. 197

16 Allied war preparations for 1856 and the war council in Paris, January 1856 p. 205

Part 5 The End of the War

17 The Paris peace congress, February-April 1856 p. 215

18 The consequences of the war for international relations p. 223

19 The medical services p. 229.

Notes:

Originally published: London: Arnold, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350083431

1350083437

9781350083448

1350083445

OCLC:

1120169628