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Title: Death or Glory: The Legacy of the Crimean War by Robert B. Edgerton ISBN: 0-8133-3789-5 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Fine Book.
Comment: Edgerton's book about the Crimean War does not just cover the battles. It covers the British society of that time who thought a war would be a fine thing because they hadn't had one in 40 years. It covers the stupidity of the British high command, both on the spot and in Britain, and the suffering that this stupidity caused those fine British soldiers who did their duty. Kipling would approve of this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Disasters of War
Comment: Death or Glory contained so many errors that I found it difficult to read. Edgerton's discussion of the Ottoman Turkish involvement in the war proved abysmal. He glossed over and distorted the accounts of British and French officers and soldiers who served in the Ottoman army. In addition, he paid no attention to Polish and Ottoman sources relating to the Ottoman part in the war. Edgerton informs us that the staffs of the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the Public Record Office translated all works in French and other languages for him. Since he could not read in French himself, he missed many crucial points. Distressingly, Edgerton has misunderstood Victorian English. William Howard Russell's "rapine" [meaning pillaging, looting] at Kertch became "rape" for Edgerton - a fabulous misinterpretation that led to the incorrect conclusion that allied troops raped innumerable women. On another occasion, Edgerton totally dismissed the major scandals surrounding the Ottoman Turkish generals at Kars in 1855 - publicized at great length in published English sources by Lake, Williams, and Sandwith - with the facile comment that the Ottoman Turkish general was only too glad to turn command of the Ottoman Turkish army over to General Williams. It didn't quite happen that way! By far the worst conclusion in this book was Edgerton's unwillingness to find post-traumatic stress disorder in the various letters, diaries, and memoirs of soldiers in the war! He simply did not look. Perhaps his inability to understand Victorian English prevented him. Death or Glory is a HUGE disappointment. Anyone attempting to find out about the war's realities will merely end in unknowing and confusion.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not your typical military history book!
Comment: Robert Egerton did a wonderful job of expressing what it was like for soldier and civilians who lived (and died) during the Crimean War. The hardships that the soldiers, sailors and civilians endured was truly amazing! Mr. Egerton's description and antedotes really drove this home. I must admit that the book would have been more enjoyable if I had had any knowledge of the Crimean War before I read the book. My ignorance made the battle references somewhat hard to follow. I highly recommend this book.
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Title: The Crimean War 1853-1856: 1853-1856 (Modern Wars) by Winfried Baumgart ISBN: 034061465X Publisher: Edward Arnold Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Sebastopol Sketches (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy, David McDuff ISBN: 0140444688 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Crimea : The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856 by Trevor Royle ISBN: 1403964165 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 21 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Crimean War: A Reappraisal (Wordsworth Military Library) by Philip Warner ISBN: 1840222476 Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Eyewitness in the Crimea: The Crimean War Letters (1854-1856) of Lt. Col. George Frederick Dallas Sometime Captain, 46th Foot, and Adc to Sir Robert Garrett by Michael Hargreave Mawson ISBN: 1853674508 Publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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