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Article: The Thin Red Line: An Eyewitness History of the Crimean War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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The Thin Red Line: An Eyewitness History of the Crimean War. Julian Spilsbury. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]20.00. xi + 340 pages. ISBN 0-297-84625-6. The author uses his military background to good effect in this account of the Crimean War. From the book's outset he traces the story of the war's beginning and the history of the various engagements through the first-hand account of participants, accounts drawn from a variety of published sources and manuscripts held in the National Army Museum and other depositories. This gives his narrative an immediacy so that one has not so much the history of a war but a chronicle ...
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