The Crimean War
The Truth Behind the Myth
Formats & editions
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407093116
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 416
'Exhaustively researched and scholarly-an exciting story and one that benefits from accounts written at the time by various soldiers and observers.' Beryl Bainbridge, Guardian
'Between these covers you will find a wholly unpretentious, terrifyingly honest breakdown of a war-exceptionally harrowing and impossible to put down.' Mick Middles, Manchester Evening News
'Ponting is both incisive and original in his account of what contemporaries called the "Russian War"'. Michael Kerrigan, Scotsman
'Lucid and comprehensive-a vivid essay on wartime blunders and the post-war bluster that tried to hide them.' Charles King, Times Literary Supplement