"The Crimean War"

The Crimean War: A History (Orlando Figes)

The Crimean seems like a difficult war to make an interesting book out of, since it basically is just (spoiler alert!) two battles and a long siege. It's to the author's credit that the book doesn't drag, mostly I think due to his careful scene-setting before the war itself starts. Unfortunately, his equally exhaustive post-mortem goes on a little long (decades after the titular war itself is over), but this is really the only nit I can pick. The end.

Grade: B+