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Colourful new narrative history of the Crimean War, published to coincide with the 150th anniversary- March 1854- of the declaration of hostilities.

About the Author

Clive Ponting is Reader in Politics at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of the bestselling Green History of the World, as well as the Pimlico History of the Twentieth Century and the Pimlico World History. He has written a revisionist biography of Churchill and a book, Armageddon, about the 2nd world war, as well as Thirteen Days, which detailed the diplomacy leading up to the 1st world war. He lives in Wales.