Crimea - Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes

Category: Education

Narrator: Malk Williams

Tags: Education, History, Documentary

**** If you enjoy, please support the author by purchasing the book ****, Title: Crimea, Author: Orlando Figes, Category: Audiobook, Narrated By: Malk Williams, Duration: 20:38:09, Type: MP3, Size: 567.1 MB, Bitrate: 64 Kb/s, ************************************************************************************** ***************************************:~Info~:*************************************** **************************************************************************************, The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was also a war of religion, driven by a fervent, populist and ever more ferocious belief by the Tsar and his ministers that it was Rus