Penguin Books Ltd., 2015. — 416 p. On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history. Almost 700 men armed with sabre and lance, charged straight at the muzzles of Russian cannons. This vivid and extraordinarily detailed account of the charge and the bloody mêlée...
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Gie, 1870. — 432 p. "From the Medical and Surgical Statistics of the Crimean Campaigns in 1854-1856 and Italy in 1859." La France est, de l'aveu de tous, une grande nation militaire. Le Français naît soldat, il a l'instinct de la guerre. Actif, patient, discipliné, infatigable à la marche, ingénieux au bivac, il est admirable toujours, à l'attaque...
Paris: Imprimerie de E. Martinet, 1865. — 42 p. Extrait du Spectateur Militaire. (15 Juin 1865.) Sur les 95 000 morts sous Sébastopol, 75 000 Soldats ont été tués par des maladies et des services médicaux inadéquats, et seulement 20 000 dans la bataille. Je rappelle que les britanniques de 18058 soldats qui sont morts en Crimée, de maladies et de soins médicaux inadéquats sont...
Leeds: Raider Books, 1988. — 44 p. The aim of this book is to cover the organisations and orders of battle of the armies concerned. The uniform section is confined to a concise summary of known material. This will be of interest and use to both the military historian and the wargamer. Although general references are made to the armies as a whole, the authors have concentrated...
Leeds: Raider Books, 1988. — 38 pgs. The aim of this book is to cover the organisations and orders of battle of the armies concerned. The uniform section is confined to a concise summary of known material. This will be of interest and use to both the military historian and the wargamer. Although general references are made to the armies as a whole, the authors have concentrated...
Shrewsbury: Kingswood Books, 1996. — 253 p. This book compiles official reports, contemporary accounts, medal rolls, and other information regarding the 1855 French and British expedition to raid the Russian coast in the Sea of Azov during the Crimean War. The allies reasoned that this would allow them to cut off the Crimea even further from Russia and prevent further supplies...
Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999. — 288 p. In 1853, the Crimean War began as an intensely romantic affair, with officers and soldiers alike taking to the fray with phrases like death or glory on their tongues and in their hearts. Nothing stands out more starkly than the toughness of the soldiers who fought so savagely, seldom complained, and only rarely collapsed under...
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010. — 608 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8050-7460-4. From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," ( Financial Times ) the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age . The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale — these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Less well-known is that this savage war (1853-1856)...
New York: J. P. Lippincott Company, 1963. — 210 p. Series: Great Battles of History. Peter Gibbs builds on his previous book, Crimean Blunder , to focus entirely on the allied British and French armies' first battle with the Russians in the Crimean War. The Russians positioned themselves on the heights rising from the bank of the Alma river north of Sevastopol. The battle that...
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1988. — 366 p. This book describes what at first sight seems an obscure campaign of the Royal Navy, but its significance has been greatly underestimated since it was the first time in history that a steam battlefleet went to war. It is carefully researched, using sources from all participants, and particularly sympathetic to the Finnish...
Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2014. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78346-204-9. The Crimean War was a conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, British Emppire, Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. Most of...
New York: Mason and Lipscomb, 1973. - 269 pgs. This account of the Charge of the Light Brigade examines the many conflicting themes accounting for the defeat of the British cavalry at Balaclava. The story is not just about the commanders, but also about the men who took part in the famous charge, and we see them not as drink-sodden, brutalized soldiers, but as intelligent,...
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1961. — 342 p. In March 1854, a British army of 30,000 men sailed for the Crimea to defend the crumbling Turkish empire from Russia. It was led by Lord Raglan, a veteran of Waterloo. The campaign quickly degenerated into a series of military disasters caused by incompetence at the highest level, bitter personal rivalries among the divisional...
London: Leo Cooper, 1971. — 165 p. General Sir Edward Cooper Hodge GCB (1810–1894) was a British Army officer. As a Lieutenant-Colonel, Edward Cooper Hodge commanded the 4th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoon Guards at the Battle of Balaclava. He was subsequently placed in command of the 5th Dragoon Guards, and later rose to the rank of General. His letters and diary, edited by...
Old Woking, Surrey: Unwin Brothers Ltd.: 1977. - 261 pgs. This is Sgt Newman's diary account of being held as a prisoner of war by the Russians. He made interesting notes of his experiences, the Russians, and his fellow prisoners. After transport to the inland town of Voronezh (Voronesh), Newman and his compatriots were on a kind of loose parole, free to leave their quarters...
Bellona, 2006. — 268 p. Zywy opis wydarzen wojny krymskiej, ktora zachwiala potega carskiej Rosji. Desant wojsk koalicji Anglii, Francji i Turcji, bedacy odpowiedzia na wkroczenie rosyjskich wojsk do Moldawii i Woloszczyzny, rozpoczal dlugotrwale, krwawe dzialania wojenne.
London: Pan Macmillan, 2004. - 280 pgs. The Charge of the Light Brigade, the Thin Red Line and the Lady of the Lamp have all passed into legend. The Crimean War showed the incompetence of the British high command being redeemed time and again by the outstanding courage of the British soldier. Failure of supplies, exposure and disease led to the deaths of thousands during the...
London: Pan Macmillan, 2004. - 280 pgs. The Charge of the Light Brigade, the Thin Red Line and the Lady of the Lamp have all passed into legend. The Crimean War showed the incompetence of the British high command being redeemed time and again by the outstanding courage of the British soldier. Failure of supplies, exposure and disease led to the deaths of thousands during the...
London: Greenhill Books, 1985. - 537 pgs. George Frederick 'Fred' Dallas wrote 137 letters to his family and friends while on active service in the Crimea. A company commander in the 46th Foot, his first letters reflect a soldier's enthusiasm, but within weeks of arriving excitement has turned to disbelief at the continual misjudgement of his leaders. By contrast, Dallas'...
Bowden: Withcut House, 2001. — 129 p. This book is the result of the author's lifelong interest in the 'Orders of Battle' of the British Army, as well as frustration with military history books that do not include such information. This book illustrates the Orders of Battle for the main battles and engagements of the Crimea, and also gives the organization for five base dates:...
Stroud, UK : The History Press, 2011. — 224 p. The day after the Battle of Balaklava, the Russians attempted an armed reconnaissance of the Allied right flank aimed at the exposed Inkermann position, but the remnants of the British 2nd Division bloodily repulsed them. The battle lasted less than 12 hours but was one of the bloodiest engagements in European history. While the...
St. Martin’s Press, 1987. — 289 p. In this classic account of the Crimean War, Alan Palmer puts the myths and realities of The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale, the rivalry between Lord Cardigan and Lord Lucan and the patriotic fervour of Imperial Britain into perspective. The Crimea campaign was a story of Great Power politics and diplomacy. In Palmer's...
New York: Dorset Press, 1992. — 290 p. — ISBN: 0-88029-776-Х. Originally published as Alan Palmer - The Banner of Battle, 1987. In this classic account of the Crimean War, Alan Palmer puts the myths and realities of The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale, the rivalry between Lord Cardigan and Lord Lucan and the patriotic fervour of Imperial Britain into...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 327 p. The Crimean War was fought far from its namesake peninsula in Ukraine. Until now, accounts of Britain's and France's naval campaigns against Czarist Russia in the Baltic, White Sea, and Pacific have remained fragmented, minimized, or thinly-referenced. This book considers each campaign from an imperial perspective extending from South America...
Bowdon, Cheshire: Withycut House, 1994. — 52 p. This is a transcription of a journal "Winter Sketches" held by the Dukes of Cornwall's Light Infantry Regimental Museum in Bodmin Castle. It was written by an officer of the 46th Foot (South Devonshire Regiment), possibly Lieutenant Richard Lluellyn (Llewellyn). Major Robins annotated and added additional material to this...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 564 p. The Crimean War 1854-1856 is one of history's most compelling subjects. It encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and maladministration on a grand scale. It created a heroic myth out of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade and, in Florence Nightingale, it produced one of history's great heroes. New weapons were introduced; trench...
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1977. - 232 pgs. Military history is often seen from one point of view, and this is especially true of the Crimean War where the 'Charge of the Light Brigade' and Florence Nightingale are, for English speakers, the focal points. This account looks down different gunsights — Russian — and re-constructs events as they saw and expressed them in their...
New York: Atheneum, 1970. - 245 pgs. Originally published in Great Britain under the title The Thin Red Line . The author was a senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy. This book describes the battle by weaving together substantial extracts from the accounts of eye-witnesses: Lord Paget, Lt Roberts RMA, Surgeon Munro, Sir John Blunt, Lt Whinyates RHA, Mrs Duberly,...
The History Press, 2018. — 240 p. The Crimean War 1853-1856 was the most destructive conflict of Queen Victoria’s reign, the outcome of which was indecisive; most historians see it as an irrelevant, unnecessary conflict despite Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the Light Brigade. Here Hugh Small shows how the history of the Crimean War has been manipulated to conceal...
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1993. - 384 pgs. Many historians have dismissed FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, first Baron Raglan, as at best, an indifferent and, at worst, an incompetent on the basis of his command of the British army in the Crimea. Yet as this biography reveals, Raglan's achievements over fifty years should not be judged on so narrow a basis. True, as Commander...
Oxford: Osprey. -2001. - 95 p. This bitter war between Russia and Turkey, aided by Britain and France, was the setting for the stuff of legends. This book details the gallant yet suicidal Charge of the Light Brigade, now immortalised in film: in the words of Tennyson, Into the Valley of Death rode the Six Hundred. It relates the reports made by the first real war correspondent,...
Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1984. — 175 p. In War and Administration , Dr. Sweetman challenges the popular interpretation of events, showing that the most important changes for the Army happened before any actual fighting in the East. Certainly, revelations from the trenches were important, but only insofar as they provided the impetus for reform which had been...
London, New York: The London Printing and Publishing Company (Limited), 1855. — 384 p. Chronological description of the events of the war. " "What is history," said the emperor Napoleon, "but a fable agreed upon?" Though we are by no means inclined to admit of the extensive application of this aphoristic inquiry, which was doubtless intended; yet it is certainly true with...
New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1973. — 216 p. This book takes a second look at the perceived inefficiency and blundering of the British army in the Crimean War. In examining contemporary accounts, the author finds that the Allies won a war against extremely tough opponents, and that at the end of it the British army had reached a very high pitch of efficiency. Similar...
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953. — 287 p. The Reason Why is a study of the Charge of the Light Brigade, a military disaster during the Crimean War and one of the defining events of the Victorian age. It became Woodham-Smith's most popular book, and afterwards she explained to a television audience how she wrote the Charge itself: working at a gallop through thirty-six hours...
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