title: Mungo Melvin, Sevastopol’s Wars: Crimea from Potemkin to Putin
abstract: ‘No operation is of such doubtful issue as the landing in an enemy’s country for thepurpose of conquest. Modern, and British history in particular, is full of disastrousfailures in the attempt, and those which have succeeded have been, generally, mosthazardous.’ So wrote Lieutenant General Sir John Fox Burgoyne, strategic adviser toLord Raglan, prior to Britain’s costly and controversial expedition to the Crimea. Yet,the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir James Graham, was convinced that only thed