The Origins of the Crimean War (Origins of Modern Wars)

By David M. Goldfrank

Book Overview

The Crimean War (1853-56) between Russia, Turkey, Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia was the biggest international conflict of the European powers in the century between the Napoleonic Wars and the World War I. When it was over, 800,000 soldiers had died in an obscure corner of the map in a war that could easily have been prevented. How did it happen? David Goldfrank shows how, though the war was fought in the distant Crimea, its origins lay in the pressing domestic concerns of the belligerents.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582490545
• ISBN13: 9780582490543
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.3" x 5.8"