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The Highland Brigade in the Crimea by Lt-Col Anthony Sterling
Soft Cover, condition - new. Published by Absinthe Press, Minneapolis, MN. ISBN 0-9649188-0-3 244 pages Originally published: London: 1895
"In late 1853 the first major war since the fall of Napoleon I began.The great European powers of Britain, France and the ageing Ottoman Empire made war against mighty Russia. The Highland Brigade in the Crimea written by Lt.-Col, Sterling, a staff officer serving with Sir Colin Campbell's acclaimed Highlanders, is a first hand account of the Crimean War, culled from over a hundred "letters to home". These letters offer the reader an incisive and fascinating into the officer's life during one of the nineteenth century's more agonising wars."