Crimean War Compendium: Six Fascinating Reads
Eyewitness Reports, Veteran Memoirs, and Victorian Tales of the Crimean CampaignBy William Howard Sir Russell, T. Gowing, John Alfred Langford, Thomas Faughnan, F. S. Brereton
Length87h 10m
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Crimean War Compendium: Six Fascinating Reads gathers six accounts and historical narratives that illuminate the Crimean War through reportage, recollection, military adventure, and retrospective interpretation. Its range moves from the immediacy of battlefield observation to the broader shaping of public memory, allowing readers to encounter the campaign as both lived catastrophe and literary subject. Particularly compelling are the works that register the tension between imperial confidence, logistical failure, and individual endurance, situating familiar episodes of siege, cavalry action, and hospital suffering within a larger human drama. The contributors represent overlapping traditions of Victorian journalism, popular history, military writing, and historical fiction. William Howard Sir Russell's presence evokes the emergence of modern war correspondence and its power to bring military administration under public scrutiny, while the other voices extend the volume's engagement with veteran testimony, national remembrance, and narrative reconstruction. Together, these writers reflect the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fascination with Crimea as a formative conflict in British political, technological, and media history. This volume is recommended for students of war literature, Victorian culture, and military history, as well as general readers seeking a varied introduction to the conflict. By placing distinct modes of narration in dialogue, it offers an educational, expansive view of how the Crimean War was witnessed, interpreted, and remembered.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length87 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks
26CHAPTER XXVI.
2PREFACE.
27CHAPTER XXVIII.
3CHAPTER II.
28A Gallant Grenadier: A Tale of the Crimean War
4CHAPTER III.
29A Gallant Grenadier: A Tale of the Crimean War
5CHAPTER IV.
30"A Gallant Grenadier" (pt. 1)
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6CHAPTER V.
31"A Gallant Grenadier" (pt. 2)
7CHAPTER VI.
32"A Gallant Grenadier" (pt. 3)
8CHAPTER VII.
33"A Gallant Grenadier" (pt. 4)
9CHAPTER VIII. (pt. 1)
34The War with Russia; Its Origin and Cause
10CHAPTER VIII. (pt. 2)
35THE WAR WITH RUSSIA.
11CHAPTER IX.
36Footnote
12CHAPTER X.
37The British Expedition to the Crimea
13CHAPTER XI.
38BOOK I. (pt. 1)
14CHAPTER XIII.
39BOOK I. (pt. 2)
15CHAPTER XIV.
40BOOK II. (pt. 1)
16CHAPTER XV.
41BOOK II. (pt. 2)
17Stirring Incidents in the Life of a British Soldier: An Autobiography
42BOOK III.
18PREFACE.
43BOOK IV. (pt. 1)
19CHAPTER IV.
44BOOK IV. (pt. 2)
20CHAPTER VIII.
45BOOK V. (pt. 1)
21CHAPTER XI.
46BOOK V. (pt. 2)
22CHAPTER XIV.
47BOOK VI.
23CHAPTER XVII.
48BOOK VII. (pt. 1)
24CHAPTER XX.
49BOOK VII. (pt. 2)
25CHAPTER XXIII.
50BOOK VIII. (pt. 1)
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