
Orlando Figes is an English historian of Russia, and a professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London.
Please note that the maps available in the print edition do not appear in the ebook.From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern ageThe Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Less well-known is that this savage war (1853-1856)