TY - BOOK AU - Ponting,Clive TI - The Crimean War SN - 0712636536 AV - DK214 .P66 2005 U1 - 947/.0738 22 PY - 2005/// CY - London PB - Pimlico KW - Crimean War, 1853-1856 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 342-352) and index; 1. The Reason Why -- 2. Strategy -- 3. The Baltic: 1854 -- 4. The War in the East -- 5. Varna to the Alma -- 6. Alma and After -- 7. Balaklava -- 8. Inkerman -- 9. Crimean Winter -- 10. Crimean Winter: The Response -- 11. Peace Rejected -- 12. The Wider War -- 13. The Baltic: 1855 -- 14. Crimean Spring -- 15. The Fall of Sevastopol -- 16. Stalemate -- 17. The Road to Peace -- 18. The Peace of Paris -- 19. The Impact of the War N2 - Publisher description : Clive Ponting explodes many of the romantic myths to do with the war, and recounts the heroism of ordinary men. Eye-witness accounts include war correspondent William Russell of The Times, and Leo Tolstoy who was caught up in the action while visiting his brother ER -