The Crimean War: secondary sources

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Dr. Trudi Tate, Clare Hall, Cambridge, contributed the bibliography in 2019, and Marjie Bloy, Ph. D., Senior Research Fellow, the Victorian Web listed her extracts from secondary sources in 2000. Extracts from Christopher Hibbert's The Destruction of Lord Raglan, (Longmans, 1961) appear with the author's kind permission. Copyright, of course, remains with Dr. Hibbert.

Bibliography

Bates, Rachel, Holly Furneaux and Alistair Massey, Eds. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. Special issue on the Crimean War 20 (2015). Web.

Dutton, Roy. Forgotten Heroes: The Charge of the Light Brigade. Oxton, Wirral: InfoDial, 2007.

Furneaux, Holly. Military Men of Feeling: Emotion, Touch, and Masculinity in the Crimean War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Hibbert, Christopher. The Destruction of Lord Raglan. London: Longmans, 1961.

Lambert, Andrew and Stephen Badsey, Eds. The War Correspondents: The Crimean War. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1994.

Massie, Alastair. The National Army Museum Book of the Crimean War: The Untold Stories. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 2004.

Palmer, Alan. The Banner of Battle: The Story of the Crimean War. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.

Tai-Chun Ho. The Crimean War in Victorian Poetry. 2021.

Tate, Trudi. "On Not Knowing Why: Memorializing the Light Brigade," in Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer. Ed. Helen Small and Trudi Tate. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Tate, Trudi. A Short History of the Crimean War. London: I. B. Tauris, 2019.

Material quoted from secondary Sources

• the organisation of the British army
• the men in command of the British army (early 1854)
• the British army at Varna (September 1854)
• the landing at Eupatoria (September 1854)
• the March to the Alma (September 1854)
• the Russian defences at Sevastopol (September 1854)
• the British camp at Balaclava (September/October 1854)
• Dissent among the British commanders (October onwards, 1854)
• the Charge of the Light Brigade (25 October 1854)
• the condition of the British army in the Crimea (November 1854)
• the great storm (14 November 1854)
• chaos at the British camp at Balaclava (December 1854)
• the nightmare of the Crimea (January/February 1855)
• improvements in the Crimea (February 1855)
• the Charge of the Light Brigade (25 October 1854)
• Extract from Cecil Woodham Smith's The Reason Why (New York, McGraw-Hill 1953), pp.242-59.
• Lawrence W. Crider. In Search of the Light Brigade. [Biographical dictionary] Barnham, West Sussex: Eurocommunica, 2004. [Review by GPL].

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