 | Crimean War: 1853 - 1856 (Modern Wars) by Winfried Baumgart
An excellent introduction to the war, one that covers the other, often overlooked battlefields as well.
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 | The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 (Oxford History of Modern Europe) by A. J. P. Taylor
Buy new: £19.73 / Used from: £8.00 Still the starting point for the broader diplomacy surrounding the war.
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 | The Origins of the Crimean War (Origins Of Modern Wars) by D. Goldfrank
Buy new: £22.99 / Used from: £11.37 A good introduction to the origins of the war, though stronger in its examination of Russia than the other powers.
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 | The Crimean War: A Diplomatic History (East European Monographs) by David Wetzel
An excellent summary of the diplomacy of the Crimean War, balanced and with a useful bibliography.
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| Austria, Great Britain and the Crimean War: The Destruction of the European Concert by Paul W. Schroeder
Buy used from: £17.25 An examination of the origins of the war and its consequences for the European states system, Schroeder is a partisan of 'concert diplomacy' and blames the conflict on Britain's abandonment of it.
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 | Crimea by Trevor Royle
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £5.50 A good recent narrative of the conflict.
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| The Crimean War: A Russian Chronicle by Albert Seaton
Buy used from: £88.88 An examination of the Russian military during the war, arguing (unsurprisingly) that it came up short against the more modern forces of the British and the French.
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 | Death or Glory: Legacy of the Crimean War by Robert B. Edgerton
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 | The Reason Why by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.13 The classic examination of the famous 'charge of the Light Brigade,' which places the blame for it on Cardigan and Lucan.
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| The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy Against Russia, 1853-56 (War, Armed Forces & Society) by Andrew D. Lambert
Buy used from: £25.00 A recent examination of British strategy before and during the war, though one that focuses heavily on the naval aspects while dealing with the army only cursorily.
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 | British Military Intelligence in the Crimean War, 1854-1856 (Studies in Intelligence) by Stephen M. Harris
Buy new: £85.50 / Used from: £78.93 Though extremely technical, this is nonetheless a good examination of the efforts to compensate for the muddled intelligence system the British had at the start of the war.
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 | The Crimean War (War Correspondents) by Andrew D. Lambert
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 | Letters from the Crimea by Florence Nightingale
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £10.99 A useful collection of letters from Florence Nightingale that capture the frustrations she faced in her efforts to help the wounded.
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 | Eyewitness in the Crimea: The Crimean War Letters of Lt.Col.George Frederick Dallas, 1854-1856 by George Frederick Dallas
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 | The Sebastopol Sketches (Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy used from: £2.55 As a young man, Tolstoy participated in the defense of Sebastapol; this book contains three pieces describing the experiences of Russian soldiers there.
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 | The Aberdeen Coalition 18521855 by J. B. Conacher
Buy used from: £14.73 The standard history of the Aberdeen coalition, the Peelite government which led Britain into the war and was defeated by its conduct.
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| A Liberal State at War: English Politics and Economics During the Crimean War (Modern Revivals in History) by Olive Anderson
Buy new: £42.50 / Used from: £38.99 An examination of the war's impact on Britain, arguing that it helped facilitate the political emergence of the middle class.
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| War and Administration: The Significance of the Crimean War for the British Army by John Sweetman
Buy used from: £3.99 Sweetman argues that the Crimean War was not the genesis for army reform, though he is unduly dismissive of the problems that it faced there.
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