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Title: Crimea
Author: Orlando Figes
Category: Audiobook
Narrated By: Malk Williams
Duration: 20:38:09
Type: MP3
Size: 567.1 MB
Bitrate: 64 Kb/s
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The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at
least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France
and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the
Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from
the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was also a war of religion, driven by a
fervent, populist and ever more ferocious belief by the Tsar and his ministers that
it was Russia's task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land.
Orlando Figes' major new book reimagines this extraordinary war, in which the stakes
could not have been higher and which was fought with a terrible mixture of ferocity
and incompetence. It was both a recognisably modern conflict - the first to be
extensively photographed, the first to employ the telegraph, the first 'newspaper war'
- and a traditional one, with illiterate soldiers, amateur officers and huge
casualties caused by disease. Drawing on a huge range of fascinating sources, Figes
also gives the lived experience of the war, from that of the ordinary British soldier
in his snow-filled trench to the haunted, gloomy, narrow figure of Tsar Nicholas
himself as he vows to take on the whole world in his hunt for religious salvation.
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