The First New War
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Crimea, 25 August 2011
Crimea: The Last Crusade
by Orlando Figes.
Penguin, 575 pp., £12.99, June 2011,978 0 14 101350 3 Show More
by Orlando Figes.
Penguin, 575 pp., £12.99, June 2011,
“... felt the same. Britain was in the curious position of being the one great power which could in no possible circumstance acquire European territory by war, but it still did not want Russia to do so, and it became a cardinal point of British policy that Turkey should be protected for as long as possible, which plainly made Russia a potential ... ”