The Crimean War: 1853–1856

✍ Scribed by Winfried Baumgart

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Title Description: Winfried Baumgart’s masterful history of the Crimean War has been expanded and fully updated to reflect advances made in the field since the book’s first publication. It convincingly argues that if the war had continued after 1856, the First World War would have taken place 60 years earlier, but that fighting ultimately ceased because diplomacy never lost its control over the use of war as an instrument in power politics.
The book explores:
The Crimean War: 1853-1856 examines the conflict in both its Europe-wide and global contexts, moving beyond the five great European powers to consider the role and importance of smaller states and theatres of war that have otherwise been under-served. To this end, it looks at fighting on the Danube front, the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea, and the Caucasian battlefield, as well as the White Sea and the Pacific, with final chapters devoted to the Paris peace congress of 1856, the end of the war and its legacy.
With 19 new images, 13 maps and additional tables, as well as a brand new chapter on the medical services, this book remains the definitive study of one of the most important wars in modern history.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
MAPS
GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
PART ONE Origins and Diplomacy of the War
1 The real cause of the war–the Eastern Question
Annotated bibliography
2 Diplomacy during the war, 1853–6
Annotated bibliography
PART TWO The Belligerents and the Non-Belligerents
3 The war aims of the belligerents
Annotated bibliography
4 The non-belligerent German powers: Austria and Prussia
Annotated bibliography
5 The neutral powers
Sweden
Spain
The United States
Greece
The minor German powers (the German Confederation)
Annotated bibliography
PART THREE The Armies of the Belligerents
6 Russia
Annotated bibliography
7 France
Annotated bibliography
8 Great Britain
Annotated bibliography
9 Turkey
Annotated bibliography
10 Sardinia
Annotated bibliography
PART FOUR The War
11 The Danube front, 1853–4
The Allied fleets in the Levant and the Russian occupation of the Danubian Principalities
The naval engagement at Sinope, 30 November 1853
The siege of Silistria, March–June 1854
The Austrian occupation of the Danubian Principalities
The Allied military build-up at Constantinople and Varna
The French expedition to the Dobrudja, August 1854
Annotated bibliography
12 The Black Sea theatre
The invasion of the Crimea and the Battle of the Alma, 20 September 1854
The siege of Sevastopol: the beginning
The Battle of Balaklava, 25 October 1854
The Battle of Inkerman, 5 November 1854
The November storm of 1854 and the Crimean winter of 1854–5
The siege of Sevastopol – the second stage, February–May 1855
The siege of Sevastopol – the last stage, June–August 1855
The fall of Sevastopol and its consequences
Annotated bibliography
13 The campaigns in the Baltic, 1854 and 1855
Annotated bibliography
14 The Caucasian battlefield, 1853–5
Annotated bibliography
15 The minor theatres of war: the White Sea and the Pacific
Annotated bibliography
16 Allied war preparations for 1856 and the war council in Paris, January 1856
Annotated bibliography
PART FIVE The End of the War
17 The Paris peace congress, February–April 1856
18 The consequences of the war for international relations
Annotated bibliography (for chapters 17 and 18)
19 The medical services
Diseases: cholera, typhoid, hospital gangrene, scurvy
The medical service: surgeons and nursing staff
The treament of the sick
Hospitals
The Sardinian and Turkish medical services
The death toll of the war
Annotated bibliography
Epilogue
APPENDIX: CHRONOLOGY
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GENERAL INDEX