Pagination: 584pp and over 100 illustrations plus maps and lithographs
Condition: Original condition; Half Calf with Textured cloth Boards, marbled end papers and all stock edges, Covers and spine scuffed. Some bumping to board edges (see pics), Paper cover to internal front hinge is missing. Structurally, the book is sound
An oral and visual history compiled with the use of eye-witness accounts in the form of letters and diaries of soldiers, sailors, doctors, nurses, artists and reporters. They include views from all sides of the conflict; British, French, Russian and Turkish. The war was the first to be photographed (by Roger Fenton) and the first to which professional war artists were assigned, and the book is extensively illustrated with images created by these photographers and artists.
