This book focuses on the strategic and operational dimensions of the campaigns of the Civil War, showing how such factors as generalship, organization, intelligence and logistics affected the decisions of the battlefield.
"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. Acts of astonishing bravery, many of them by doctors, women, and children, were commonpla…
"The 'Crimean War' was much more than a series of battles in the Crimea. One of the most neglected aspects has been the naval campaign in the Pacific Ocean, where a joint British and French squadron sailed from Chile to Kamchatka to engage Russian naval vessels, only to suffer d…
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 c…
"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 …
