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Crimean War Booklist

 

Books about the Crimean War and the Charge of the Light Brigade

 

Fiction

• Master Georgie
  Author: Bainbridge, Beryl
  Publisher: Carroll & Graf List Price: $ 21 ISBN: 0786705639 Date: 1998
  PW Kirkus
  Booker Prize short list title.
  The magnificent new novel by the acclaimed author of The Birthday Boys and Every Man for Himself goes back to the mid-19th century to accompany the travels of a group of Liverpool characters to the Crimea, bringing the horrors of a significant battle shockingly to life.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars
• The Great Stink
  Author: Clark, Clare
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 25 ISBN: 0151011613 Date: 2005
  PW
  With extraordinarily vivid characters and unflinching prose that recall Year of Wonders and The Dress Lodger, The Great Stink marks the debut of an outstandingly talented writer in the tradition of the best historical novelists.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts | Historical Fiction
  Updated 6.20.05
• Flashman at the Charge
  Author: Fraser, George MacDonald
  Yes, that unabashed adventurer, shameless scoundrel and lustful libertine Flashman is back - racing away from danger in the greatest charge in history, and plunging into amorous action with as lascivious a line-up of fair ladies as has ever given the life to purity and virtue. You're in for a wild and uninhibited ride when you join Flashman at the Charge. - Publisher Marketing.
  Updated 10.11.05
• The Winter Soldiers
  Author: Kilworth, Garry Douglas
  Publisher: Carroll & Graf $ 24 ISBN: 0786711116 Date: 2003
  Booklist
  The grim reality of war after The Charge of the Light Brigade and the cameraderie of professional soldiers come to life in award-winning author Garry Douglas Kilworths new historical series starring army officer, and occasional espionage agent, Fancy Jack Crossman. After the Battle of Inkerman on November 5, 1854, the British Army in the Crimea faces the most terrible ally of the Czars armythe Russian winter. With hopelessly inadequate provisions and clothing, Sergeant Jack Crossman and his band of grumblers and stalwarts of the 88th Connaught Rangers are billeted at Kadikoi village near Balaclava harbor, with instructions to blow up the magazine in the Russian Star Fort. Yet Crossmans true task is to spy on a British general accused of corruptionand to bring about his downfall by any means necessary. As Patrick OBrian did for the British Navy, Kilworth vividly portrays the friendship and the courage of old soldiers and the brief, thrilling episodes of combat that will eventually determine the outcome of Great Britains most grueling war. - Publisher Marketing.
  Updated 10.11.05

  And:

• Badge of Glory by Douglas Reeman (1984)
• Leaves from the Valley by Joanna Trollope

Also:

• The Eyre Affair
  Author: Fforde, Jasper
  Publisher: Viking $ 23.95 ISBN: 0670030643 Date: 2002
  PW
  Based on an imaginary world where time and reality bend in the most convincing and original way since Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Eyre Affair is a an endlessly inventive caper unlike any other. [ Crimean War - alternative history aspect ]
  Suggested Reading: Time Travel Stars | Alternative History Stars | If You Like Douglas Adams| Brontes
  Updated 12/13/01

Nonfiction

• Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1954-1856
  Author: Royle, Trevor
  Publisher: St Martins $ 55 ISBN: 0312230796 Date: 2000
  Kirkus
  A world-renowned historian presents the definitive history of the Crimean War, the conflagration that was a watershed in history and pointed the way to what mass warfare would be like in the 20th century.
  Updated 9.26.05