The Crimean War: As Seen by Those Who Reported It

by William Howard Russell

Book Overview

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 journalism -- war reporting -- when he first set off for Crimea in 1854, the young Irishman returned home a veteran of three bloody battles, having survived the siege of Sebastopol and watched a colleague die of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807134457
• ISBN13: 9780807134450
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"