On 18 June 1855, the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, British assault troops moved out of their trenches before Sebastopol in the Crimea, and attacked the formidable Russian bastion known as the Great Redan. They came under such a murderou...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Dec-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487546267)
The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spain’s Long Nineteenth Century explores, throug...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Nov-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487545604)
A Woman’s Empire sheds light on how women’s voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia’s late imperial expansion into Asia. A Woman’s Empire explores a new dimension of Russian...Loe edasi...
The letters home to his family by Gerald Goodlake, a young officer in the Coldstream Guards, make remarkable reading. They vividly describe the ill-preparedness of the British Army and the dire conditions experienced by all ranks in the Crimea. Goodl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487541651)
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In 1941, the Franco regime established the Spanish Division of Volunteers to take part in the Russian campaign as a unit integrated into the German Wehrmacht. Recruited by both the Fascist Party (Falange) and the Spanish army, around 47,000...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487541668)
The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945 addresses the history and memory of the Spanish volunteers that served alongside the German army in the invasion of Russia. In 1941, the Franco regime es...Loe edasi...
Military Men of Feeling considers the popularity of the figure of the gentle soldier in the Victorian period. It traces a persistent narrative swerve from tales of war violence to reparative accounts of soldiers as moral exemplars, homemaker...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Nov-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526160485)
Beyond Nightingale is the first book to explore the inception of modern nursing from a transnational perspective, studying the development of the new military nursing in the five Crimean War armies. The story is told within the broader context...Loe edasi...
‘Glory to each and to all, and the charge that they made! Glory to all three hundred, and all the Brigade!’Everyone has heard of the charge of the Light Brigade, a suicidal cavalry attack caused by confused orders which somehow sums up the Crimean Wa...Loe edasi...
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George Duckworth, a captain in the 5th Dragoon Guards, died of cholera at Varna, on the west coast of the Black Sea, on 24 August 1854. He neither fought the Russians nor reached the Crimea....Loe edasi...
Irina Evdokimova, Slav N. Gratchev, Margarita Marinova
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487527259)
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Soviet philologist, literary dissident, and university professor Viktor Duvakin made it his mission to interview the members of the artistic avant-garde who had survived the Russian Revolution, Stalin’...Loe edasi...
Into the Valley of Death tells the thrilling story of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the words of the men who fought during the most heroic and yet futile engagement of the modern era.By drawing on key evidence the author has not only provided a...Loe edasi...
The author relies to a great extent on contemporary accounts of a large number of British men and women who were unwittingly caught up in this appalling war. As well as surviving the efforts of their determined enemy, the Russians, they had to overco...Loe edasi...
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical BiographyMark Bostridges Florence Nightingale is a masterful and effortlessly enjoyable biography of one of Britains most iconic heroines.Whether honoured and admired or...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Feb-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253046703)
How does the past exist in contemporary Ukraine? The works collected in The Burden of the Past focus on commemorative practices, the politics of history, and the way memory influences Ukrainian politics, identity, and culture. Taken togethe...Loe edasi...
In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms were disrupted by political systems see...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Feb-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253045706)
In the 1700s, Kazan Tatar (Muslim scholars of Kazan) and scholarly networks stood at the forefront of Russias expansion into the South Urals, western Siberia, and the Kazakh steppe. It was there that the Tatars worked with Russian agents, establish...Loe edasi...
In the 1700s, Kazan Tatar (Muslim scholars of Kazan) and scholarly networks stood at the forefront of Russias expansion into the South Urals, western Siberia, and the Kazakh steppe. It was there that the Tatars worked with Russian a...Loe edasi...
