The Crimean War

1853-1856

Winfried Baumgart

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781350083431
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350083455
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

Winfried Baumgart's masterful history of the Crimean War has been expanded and fully updated to reflect advances made in the field since the book's first publication. It convincingly argues that if the war had continued after 1856, the First World War would have taken place 60 years earlier, but that fighting ultimately ceased because diplomacy never lost its control over the use of war as an instrument in power politics.

With 19 images, 13 maps and additional tables as well as a brand new chapters on 'the medical services', this expanded and fully-updated 2nd edition explores

* The origins and diplomacy of the Crimean War
* The war aims and general attitudes of the belligerent powers (Russia, France, and Britain), non-belligerent German powers (Austria and Prussia) and a selected number of neutral powers, including the United States
* The characteristics and capabilities of the armies involved
* The nature of the fighting itself

The Crimean War: 1853-1856 examines the conflict in both its Europe-wide and global contexts, moving beyond the five great European powers to consider the role and importance of smaller states and theatres of war that have otherwise been under-served. To this end, it looks at fighting on the Danube front, the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Caucasian battlefield, as well as the White Sea and the Pacific, with final chapters devoted to the Paris peace congress of 1856, the end of the war and its legacy.

This book remains the definitive study of one of the most important wars in modern history.

Table of contents

• Cover page
• Halftitle page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• CONTENTS
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• MAPS
• GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE
• PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
• PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
• PART ONE Origins and Diplomacy of the War
• 1 The real cause of the war–the Eastern Question
• 2 Diplomacy during the war, 1853–6
• PART TWO The Belligerents and the Non-Belligerents
• 3 The war aims of the belligerents
• 4 The non-belligerent German powers: Austria and Prussia
• 5 The neutral powers
• PART THREE The Armies of the Belligerents
• 6 Russia
• 7 France
• 8 Great Britain
• 9 Turkey
• 10 Sardinia
• PART FOUR The War
• 11 The Danube front, 1853–4
• 12 The Black Sea theatre
• 13 The campaigns in the Baltic, 1854 and 1855
• 14 The Caucasian battlefield, 1853–5
• 15 The minor theatres of war: the White Sea and the Pacific
• 16 Allied war preparations for 1856 and the war council in Paris, January 1856
• PART FIVE The End of the War
• 17 The Paris peace congress, February–April 1856
• 18 The consequences of the war for international relations
• 19 The medical services
• Epilogue
• APPENDIX: CHRONOLOGY
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• GENERAL INDEX