The Crimean War: A History, Paperback

From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" ("Financial Times") comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the mod...

This book studies Crimean War nursing from a transnational perspective setting nursing in the five combatant armies into the wider context of Europ...

Reducere. DescriptionOn the battlefields of the Crimean War, William Howard Russell described the new weapon in the hands of British troops -- the rifle-musk...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Crimean War, one of history's most compelling subjects, encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and misadministration on a gr...

Reveals the horrors and hardships experienced by British officers and men in the Crimean War. The ill preparedness and lack of administration were ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Creative ActivitiesThis large8.5 x 11 book of crossword puzzles covers the military history of the western world and would ...

The extraordinary story of the Jewish investigator, Hanns Alexander, who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany's most notorious war criminals, K...

Reducere. This eye-opening journey through centuries of medical care on the battlefield is a fascinating read. The research is impressive, the writing style ...

History is a rich, varied, and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book . . . until now. The History of the World in Bit...

In the 1840s, post-Napoleonic Italy was 'a geographical expression'--not a country, but a patchwork of states. The north (Savoy/Piedmont, and Venic...

Written in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale...

Reducere. Clare Clark's critically acclaimed The Great Stink "reeks of talent" (The Washington Post Book World) as it vividly brings to life the dark and mys...

The founder of modern nursing expressed her revolutionary ideas of hospital reform in these two essays, published in 1859 and presented the previou...

Reducere. THE DRUMMER BOY'S BATTLE, Introducing Florence Nightingale -- After their father dies, Robbie Robinson and his older brother, Peter, join the Briti...