A revisionist to the left of them . . . This reputation-pricking study of the Crimean War by the whistleblower-turned-historian Clive Ponting does not win over Saul David

The Sunday Telegraph London | March 7, 2004| | Copyright

The Crimean War: The Truth Behind the Myth

by Clive Ponting

Chatto & Windus, pounds 20, 379 pp

pounds 18 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

IT IS 150 YEARS to the month since Britain and France leapt to the defence of the ailing Ottoman Empire by declaring war on Russia, a conflict known to us as the Crimean War.

The name, as Clive Ponting points out, is something of a misnomer in that the war spread to a number of other theatres, including the Danube, Caucasus, Baltic and even the Arctic. But the bulk of the fighting was in the Crimea and it was there that most of the legends took root: the ...

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