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 12m
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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 12 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 XXIII.
2PREFACE.
27CHAPTER XXVI.
3CHAPTER II.
28CHAPTER XXVIII.
4CHAPTER III.
29A Gallant Grenadier: A Tale of the Crimean War
5CHAPTER IV.
30"A Gallant Grenadier"
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6CHAPTER V.
31Chapter One
7CHAPTER VI. (pt. 1)
32Chapter Two
8CHAPTER VI. (pt. 2)
33Chapter Three
9CHAPTER VII.
34Chapter Four
10CHAPTER VIII. (pt. 1)
35Chapter Five
11CHAPTER VIII. (pt. 2)
36Chapter Six
12CHAPTER IX.
37Chapter Seven
13CHAPTER X.
38Chapter Eight
14CHAPTER XI.
39Chapter Nine
15CHAPTER XIII.
40Chapter Ten
16CHAPTER XIV.
41Chapter Eleven
17CHAPTER XV.
42Chapter Twelve (pt. 1)
18Stirring Incidents in the Life of a British Soldier: An Autobiography
43Chapter Twelve (pt. 2)
19PREFACE.
44The War with Russia; Its Origin and Cause
20CHAPTER IV.
45THE WAR WITH RUSSIA.
21CHAPTER VIII.
46Footnote
22CHAPTER XI.
47The British Expedition to the Crimea
23CHAPTER XIV.
48BOOK I.
24CHAPTER XVII.
49CHAPTER II
25CHAPTER XX.
50CHAPTER III
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