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Crimean War Books
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The Crimean War: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,231 ratings — published 2010
Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854 - 1856 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.82 — 292 ratings — published 1999
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 588 ratings — published 1953
Hell Riders: The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 191 ratings — published 2004
Balaclava 1854: The Charge of the Light Brigade (Campaign, 6)
by (shelved 7 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.70 — 44 ratings — published 1990
The Crimean War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.22 — 40 ratings — published
The Scarlet Thief (Jack Lark, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,153 ratings — published 2013
The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-56 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.64 — 14 ratings — published 1990
The Charge: The Real Reason Why the Light Brigade Was Lost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.98 — 57 ratings — published 1996
The Russian Army of the Crimean War 1854-56 (Men-at-Arms)
by (shelved 5 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published 1991
Inkerman 1854: The Soldiers' Battle (Praeger Illustrated Military History)
by (shelved 5 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.54 — 13 ratings — published 1998
Love in the Afternoon (The Hathaways, #5)
by (shelved 5 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 54,193 ratings — published 2010
Master Georgie (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.53 — 2,447 ratings — published 1998
The Destruction of Lord Raglan: A Tragedy of the Crimean War 1854-55 (Wordsworth Military Library)
by (shelved 5 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 60 ratings — published 1961
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by (shelved 4 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.44 — 1,865 ratings — published 1857
Band of Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,009 ratings — published 2004
Flashman at the Charge (Flashman Papers, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 5,641 ratings — published 1973
The Crimean War: 1854–1856 (Essential Histories, 2)
by (shelved 4 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.53 — 88 ratings — published 2001
The Crimean War: The Truth Behind the Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.83 — 35 ratings — published 2004
The Banner of Battle: The Story of the Crimean War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.89 — 92 ratings — published 1987
The Crimean War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.78 — 58 ratings — published 2007
The Sebastopol Sketches (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 3 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,835 ratings — published 1855
The Homicidal Earl: The Life Of Lord Cardigan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.87 — 130 ratings — published 1997
Raglan: From the Peninsula to the Crimea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1993
The Thin Red Line: The Eyewitness History Of The Crimean War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.91 — 32 ratings — published 2005
Florence Nightingale: The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 406 ratings — published 2016
To Do and Die (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.73 — 106 ratings — published 2009
Heroes of the Crimea: The Battles of Balaclava and Inkermann (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published 1991
The Russian Army of the Crimea (Men-at-Arms)
by (shelved 3 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.40 — 10 ratings — published 1973
No Place For A Lady: A sweeping wartime romance full of courage and passion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,240 ratings — published 2015
Tangled (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,479 ratings — published
The Rose of Sebastopol (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.58 — 4,096 ratings — published 2007
Forget the Glory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 120 ratings — published 1985
The Belle of Belgrave Square (Belles of London, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,647 ratings — published 2022
Bad Relations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.78 — 764 ratings — published 2022
General Sir James Scarlett: The Life and Letters of the Commander of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Forgotten Heroes: The Charge of the Light Brigade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2007
The Charge of the Heavy Brigade: Scarlett’s 300 in the Crimea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published
24 Hours at Balaclava: Voices from the Battlefield (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.46 — 24 ratings — published 2019
Messenger of Death: Captain Nolan and the Charge of the Light Brigade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 18 ratings — published 2008
Forgotten Heroes: The Charge of the Heavy Brigade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2008
Evelyn Wood VC: Pillar of Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published 2008
Pocket Hercules: Captain Morris and the Charge of the Light Brigade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 2.50 — 4 ratings — published 2006
The Siege of Kars, 1855: Defence and Capitulation Reported by General Williams (Uncovered Editions)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
A Bearskin's Crimea: Colonel Henry Percy VC and His Brother Officers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.64 — 11 ratings — published 2005
Give Them a Volley and Charge: The Battle of Inkermann, 1864 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 1999
Letters Home from The Crimea: A Young Cavalryman's Campaign (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.73 — 15 ratings — published 1977
Charge! hurrah! hurrah!: A life of Cardigan of Balaclava (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 1974
Mary Seacole: Bound for the Battlefield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 97 ratings — published
The Cavalry Lance (Weapon, 59)
by (shelved 2 times as crimean-war)
avg rating 3.67 — 9 ratings — published 2017
“Why did you fight as you did? Why did you risk death so often? Did you do it for the good of the country?
..The war wasn't for the good of the country. It was for the benefit of private mercantile interests, fueled by by the conceit of politicians.
You fought for the glory and medals then?
Hardly.
Then why?
...Everything I did was for my men. For the noncommissioned ones who had joined the army to avoid starvation or the workhouse. And for the junior officers who were experienced and long-serving but hadn't the means to buy a commission. I had the command only because I had money to purchase it, not for reason of merit. Absurd. And the men in my company, the poor bastards, were supposed to follow me , whether I proved to be incompetent, an imbecile or a coward. They had no choice but to depend on me. And therefore I had no choice but to try and be the leader they needed. I needed to keep them alive... I failed far too often. And now I would love for someone to tell me how to live with their deaths on my conscience.”
― Love in the Afternoon
..The war wasn't for the good of the country. It was for the benefit of private mercantile interests, fueled by by the conceit of politicians.
You fought for the glory and medals then?
Hardly.
Then why?
...Everything I did was for my men. For the noncommissioned ones who had joined the army to avoid starvation or the workhouse. And for the junior officers who were experienced and long-serving but hadn't the means to buy a commission. I had the command only because I had money to purchase it, not for reason of merit. Absurd. And the men in my company, the poor bastards, were supposed to follow me , whether I proved to be incompetent, an imbecile or a coward. They had no choice but to depend on me. And therefore I had no choice but to try and be the leader they needed. I needed to keep them alive... I failed far too often. And now I would love for someone to tell me how to live with their deaths on my conscience.”
― Love in the Afternoon
“Darwin's theory was received in Russia with profound sympathy. While in Western Europe it met firmly established old traditions which it had first to overcome, in Russia its appearance coincided with the awakening of our society after the Crimean War and here it immediately received the status of full citizenship and ever since has enjoyed widespread popularity.”
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