Crimean War Bibliography

Anderson, M. S.  The Great Powers and the Near East (1774-1923).  Volume from Documents of Modern History.  Great Britain: Robert Cunningham and Sons Ltd., 1970.

Anderson, Olive. A Liberal State at War: English Politics and Economics During the Crimean War. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1967.

Barbary, James. The Crimean War. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1970.

Barker, A. J. Vainglorious War: The War Against Russia, 1854-1856. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.

Baumgart, Winfried.  The Peace of Paris, 1856: Studies in War, Diplomacy, and Peacemaking. Translated by Ann P. Saab.  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1981.

Bayley, Charles C. Mercenaries for the Crimea: The German, Swiss, and Italian Legions in British Service, 1854-1856. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1977.

Cler, Jean J. G. Reminiscences of an Officer of Zouaves. New York: London, D. Appleton and Company, 1860.

Clifford, Henry. Henry Clifford, V.C.: His Letters and Sketches from the Crimea. New York: Dutton, 1956.

Curtiss, John S.  Russia's Crimean War.  Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1979.

Delafield, Richard. Report on the Art of War in Europe in 1854, 1855, and 1856. Washington, DC: G.W. Bowman, printer, 1860.

Dowty, Alan. The Limits of American Isolation: The United States and the Crimean War. New York: New York University Press, 1971.

Eardley-Wilmot, S. Life of Vice-Admiral Edmund, Lord Lyons: With an Account of Naval Operations in the Black Sea and Sea of Azoff, 1854-56. London: S. Low, Marston and Company, 1898.

Edgerton, Robert B. Death or Glory: The Legacy of the Crimean War. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999.

Embleton, Gerry A. The Crimean War, 1853-56. London: Almark Pub. Co., 1975.

French, Blake R. L. V.  The Crimean War.  London: L. Cooper, 1971.

Geshkoff, Theodore I. Balkan Union: A Road to Peace in Southeastern Europe. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940.

Gibbs, Peter. The Battle of the Alma. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963.

Gooch, Brison D. The Origins of the Crimean War. Lexington, MA: Heath, 1969.

Halleck, Henry W. Elements of Military Art and Science, or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactics of Battles, &c.: Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers: Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia. New York: D. Appleton, 1861.

Hamley, Edward B. The Story of the Campaign: A Complete Narrative of the War in Southern Russia, Written in a Tent in the Crimea. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1855.

Harris, John. The Gallant Six Hundred: A Tragedy of Obsessions. New York: Mason & Lipscomb, 1973.

Henderson, Gavin B. Crimean War Diplomacy and other Historical Essays. New York: Russell & Russell, 1975.

Hibbert, Christopher. The Destruction of Lord Raglan: A Tragedy of the Crimean War, 1854-55. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1962.

James, Lawrence. Crimea 1854-56: The War with Russia from Contemporary Photographs. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981.

Jelavich, Barbara. The Ottoman Empire, the Great Powers, and the Straits Question, 1870-1887. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1973.

Judd, Denis. The Crimean War. London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1975.

Kinglake, Alexander W. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan. New York: London, Harper, 1888-99.

Lambert, Andrew D.  The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy, 1853-56.  Manchester, NY: Manchester University, 1990.

Latimer, Elizabeth W.  Russia and Turkey in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1895.

Lincoln, W. Bruce.  Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias.  Bloomington, IN: Indian University Press, 1978.

Marriott, John A. R. The Eastern Question: A Historical Study in European Diplomacy. Oxford, England: The Clarendon Press, 1918.

Marsh, Catherine. Memorials of Captain Hedley Vicars: 97th Regiment of Foot. New York: R. Carter & Brothers, 1956.

Marx, Karl. The Eastern Question: A Reprint of Letters Written 1853-1856 Dealing with the Events of the Crimean War. New York: B. Franklin, 1968.

McCormick, Richard C. A Visit to the Camp Before Sevastopol. New York: D. Appleton and company, 1855.

Mosse, Werner E. Alexander II and the Modernization of Russia.  London: The English Universities Press, Ltd., 1958.

---.  The Rise and Fall of the Crimean System, 1855-71: The Story of a Peace Settlement. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1963.

Myerly, Scott H. British Military Spectacle: From the Napoleonic Wars through the Crimea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Nightingale, Florence. I Have Done My Duty: Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, 1854-56. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1987.

Palmer, Alan W. The Banner of Battle: The Story of the Crimean War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.

Presniakov, Alexander E.  Emperor Nicholas I of Russia: The Apogee of Autocracy.  Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1974.

Riasanovsky, Nicholas V.  Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia, 1825-1855.  Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1959.

Rich, Norman. Why the Crimean War?: A Cautionary Tale.  Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985.

Royle, Trevor.  Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Russell, William H. The British Expedition to the Crimea. New York: G. Routledge & Co., 1858.

---.  The Great War with Russia: The Invasion of the Crimea: A Personal Retrospect of the Battles of the Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman, and of the Winter of 1854-55. New York: G. Routledge, 1895.

---. War, From the Landing at Gallipoli to the Death of Lord Raglan: Russell's Dispatches from the Crimea, 1854-1856. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967.

Saab, Ann P. The Origins of the Crimean Alliance. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977.

Seaman, L. C. B.  From Vienna to Versailles.  New York: Harper and Row, 1960.

Seaton, Albert. The Crimean War: A Russian Chronicle. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977.

Selby, John M. Balaclava: Gentlemen's Battle. New York: Atheneum, 1970.

Schroeder, Paul W. Austria, Great Britain, and the Crimean War: The Destruction of the European Concert. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1972.

Smith, Karen W. Constantin Guys: Crimean War Drawings, 1854-1856. [Exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, July 18-August 20, 1978] Cleveland: The Museum, 1978.

Tyrrell, Henry. The History of the War with Russia: Giving Full Details of the Operations of the Allied Armies. New York: The London Printing and Publishing Company, 1855-58.

Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Karl F. St. Petersburg and London in the Years 1852-64: Reminiscences of Count Charles Frederick Vitzthum von Eckstaedt. Translated by Edward F. Taylor. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1887.

Warner, Philip. The Crimean War: A Reappraisal. New York: Taplinger Pub. Co., 1973.

Wetzel, David. The Crimean War: A Diplomatic History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.

Woodham-Smith, Cecil B. F. G. The Reason Why. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954.


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