General Todleben's History of the Defence of Sebastopol, 1854-5: A Review

di William Howard Russell (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2012

The journalist William Howard Russell (1820-1907) is sometimes regarded as being the first war correspondent, and his reports from the conflict in the Crimea are also credited with being a cause of reforms made to the British military system. This 1865 book began as a review in The Times of the five-volume work of General Eduard Todleben (or Totleben), the military engineer and Russian Army General, whose work in creating and continually adapting the land defences of Sevastopol in 1854-5 made him a hero and enabled the fortress to hold out against British bombardment for a whole year. Russell added extracts from the original book to his review, and enlarged his commentary on the Russian text, producing a thorough and accurate synthesis, but always highlighting the central importance of the Russian work to any student of the history of the Sevastopol siege.

• Autore: William Howard Russell
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History
• Anno: 2012
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 340 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 430 gr.
• EAN: 9781108044684

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