title: &lt;em&gt;The Crimean War: A History&lt;/em&gt;, by Orlando Figes
abstract: Reviewed by: The Crimean War: A History Andrew Lambert (bio) The Crimean War: A History, by Orlando Figes; pp. xxii + 576. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010, $35.00, $22.00 paper. Over the past two decades the Crimean War has struggled to escape the image imposed on it by historians of the Cold War era, when the existential ideological struggle between East and West shaped readings of the past. While some historians focused on international relations, determined to use the Crimea as a case stud
journal: Victorian Studies