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Cargando... The Battle of the Alma 1854por Ian Fletcher
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A solid well-balanced book on a battle which tends to be neglected in favor of Balaklava and the "Light Brigade". This is jointly done by English and Russian authors and contyains good perimary material from both sides; it also includes French material and gives fair credit to the French share in the battle (most account in English focus oon the British). Reading it at the same time as an account of the Indian Mutiny, I was struck by the way at the Alma the Russian relied on the bayonet and the British on their new Enfield rifles, while in the Mutiny the mutineers relied on the good musketry (though with older model weapons) while the British used the bayonet, ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
On 20 September 1854 the combined British and French armies confronted the Russians at the river Alma in the critical opening encounter of the Crimean War. This was the first major battle the British had fought on European soil since Waterloo almost 40 years before. In this compelling and meticulously researched study, Ian Fletcher and Natalia Ishchenko reconstruct the battle in vivid detail, using many rare and unpublished eyewitness accounts from all sides--English, French and Russian. Their groundbreaking work promises to be the definitive history of this extraordinary clash of arms for many years to come. It also gives a fascinating insight into military thinking and organization in the 1850s, midway between the end of the Napoleonic era and the outbreak of the Great War. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)947.073842History and Geography Europe Russia and eastern Europe [and formerly Finland] Russian & Slavic History by Period Paul I - Nicholas I 1796-1855 Nicholas I, 1825-1855 Crimean WarClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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