Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Peasant Russia, Civil War, A People's Tragedy, Natasha's Dance and The Whisperers. He lives in Cambridge and London. His books have been translated into over twenty languages.
This is the only book on the Crimean War anyone could need. It is
lucid, well-written, alive and sensitive. Above all, it tells us
why this neglected conflict and its forgotten victims deserve our
remembrance
*The Independent*
This is a heart-rending book ... its importance cannot be
overestimated ... This book should be made compulsory reading in
Russia today
*Antony Beevor, author of 'Stalingrad'*
A wonderful subject, on every level, and with Orlando Figes it has
found the historian worthy of its width and depth
*Standpoint*
Figes is a first class historian... [he] proves an excellent guide
to the vagaries of the battlefield, the suffering of the ordinary
soldiers and the way in which the war became a crucial part of
late-Victorian patriotic mythology, contributing to a new ethos of
muscular Christianity
*Daily Telegraph*
Orlando Figes ... is back doing what he does best - telling us
things about Russia and the world that we did not know, and proving
that they are important to our understanding of the world today ...
With his deep understanding of Russia and its uncomfortable
opposition in the world, Figes elegantly underlines how the cold
war of the Soviet era froze over fundamental fault lines that had
opened up in the 19th century
*The Observer*
It is a fine stirring account, expertly balancing analysis with a
patchwork of quotation from a wide variety of spectators and
participants, together with an impressive narrative across the vast
panoramic sweep of the war ... However, the book's true originality
lies in its unravelling of the Crimean War's religious origins
*Financial Times*
Keenly judged, vivid history of a bloody and pointless conflict
*Sunday Times Culture*
An exhaustively researched, beautifully written book
*BBC History*
One of our most engaging narrative historians, Orlando Figes has
produced with his latest book a rollickingly good account of a war
that shocked mid-Victorian England ... intelligent and reliable
history ... Figes is a stylish and compelling narrator
*Literary Review*
An impressive piece of scholarship ... a concise portrait of the
political situation of the time
*Telegraph Books of the Year 2010*
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