I.b.tauris

I.b.tauris - A short history of the crimean war | trudi tate

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• The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war
• A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British
• French and Ottoman Empires
• It was the first conflict to be reported first-hand in newspapers
• Painted by official war artists
• Recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera
• In her new short history Trudi Tate discusses the ways in which this novel representation itself became part of the modern war machine
• She tells forgotten stories about the war experience of individual soldiers and civilians
• Including journalists
• Nurses