The Crimean War: As Seen by Those Who Reported It
Armed with only a telescope, a watch, and a notebook he retrieved from a dead soldier, William Howard Russell spent twenty-two months reporting from the trenches for the Times of London during the Crimean War. A novice in a new field of journalismwar reportingwhen he first set off for Crimea in 1854, the young Irishman returned home a veteran of three bloody battles, having survived the siege of Sevastopol and watched a colleague die of cholera. Russells fine eye for detail electrified readers and his remarkably colorful accounts of battles provided those at homefor the first time everwith a realistic picture of the brutality of war. The Crim…
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Weitere Autoren: Fleming, Angela Michelli (Hrsg.) / Hamilton, John Maxwell (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8071-3445-0
- EAN: 9780807134450
- Produktnummer: 4416370
- Verlag: Louisiana St Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 181 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B14.2 cm x D2.5 cm 417 g
- Gewicht: 417
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