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  Blood and Ice

  by Robert Masello

  In this haunting and suspenseful thriller, Robert Masello delivers an adventure that spans continents and centuries—a spellbinding story that ranges from Victorian England to a remote antarctic research station, where an ancient glacier yields a shocking prize it has held captive for nearly two hundred years…. Journalist Michael Wilde—his world recently shattered by tragedy—hopes that a monthlong assignment to... (more)
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  The Great Train Robbery

  by Michael Crichton

  Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London -- and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city's most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century -- the daring theft of a fortune in gold. But even Pierce could not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of England's industrial era:... (more)
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  A House Divided (Russians, 2)

  by Judith Pella, Michael R. Phillips

  The Heroes Have Returned...But the Turmoil Rages On As the war in the Balkans draws to its bitter and devastating close, Prince Sergi returns to St. Petersburg and to his love, the young servant Anna Burenin. But the battles still rages—both within Sergi's heart and in the revolution that threatens to overthrow the tsar's tenuous control over his vast empire. Anna's brother Paul, disillusioned with a... (more)
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  Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856

  by Trevor Royle

  The Crimean War, one of history's most compelling subjects, encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and misadministration on a grand scale. It created a heroic myth out of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade and, in Florence Nightingale, it produced one of history's great heroes. The war was a watershed in world history and pointed the way to what mass warfare would be like in the twentieth century.... (more)
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  The Great Stink

  by Clare Clark

  Clare Clark’s critically acclaimed The Great Stink “reeks of talent” ( The Washington Post Book World ) as it vividly brings to life the dark and mysterious underworld of Victorian London. Set in 1855, it tells the story of William May, an engineer who has returned home to London from the horrors of the Crimean War. When he secures a job trans­forming the city’s sewer system, he believes that he will be able to... (more)
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  The Valiant Sailors: The Phillip Hazard Novels, No.1 (Stuart, V. a. Phillip Hazard Novels, No. 1.)

  by V. A. Stuart

  November 1853: First Lieutenant Phillip Hazard aboard the 300 horsepower 31-gun steam frigate Trojan is dispatched to the Crimea with a large Royal Navy fleet to deal with the Russian Black Sea fleet and support the conquest of Sevastapol in this exciting and authentic picture of the Crimean War.
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  The Reason Why

  by Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald Woodham Smith, Cecil Woodham-Smith, C. Woodham Smith

  Nothing in British campaign history has ever equalled the tragic farce that was the Charge of the Light Brigade. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn enemies for more than thirty years. In revealing the combination of pride and obstinacy that was to prove so fatal,... (more)
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  Brave Captains: The Phillip Hazard Novels, No.2

  by V. A. Stuart

  October 1854: The Plain of Balaclava thundered to two of the most incredible military maneuvers of all time—the charge of the Heavy and Light Brigades. Less well-known—but no less true heroes—were the British sailors in support of the beleaguered land forces. Conspicuous among them was Phillip Hazard an his hand-picked men of the Trojan.
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  On the Eve (Classics S.)

  by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

  Translated from the Russian By CONSTANCE GARNETT
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  The Crimean War: A Reappraisal (Wordsworth Military Library)

  by Philip Warner

  Although the Crimean War is best-known for the Charge of the Light Brigade and other disasters, the author of this work concentrates on the lessons learned by the British army and the successful responses made to the difficult conditions encountered during the campaign.
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  The Crimean War: 1854-1856 (Essential Histories)

  by John Sweetman

  This bitter war between Russia and Turkey, aided by Britain and France, was the setting for the stuff of legends. This book details the gallant yet suicidal Charge of the Light Brigade, now immortalised in film: in the words of Tennyson, 'Into the Valley of Death rode the Six Hundred'. It relates the reports made by the first real war correspondant, William Russell of the London Times - reports which served only... (more)
• The Banner of Battle: The Story of the Crimean WarAlan Warwick Palmer

  

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  The Banner of Battle: The Story of the Crimean War

  by Alan Warwick Palmer

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  The Charge: Why the Light Brigade Was Lost

  by Mark Adkin

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  The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline: An Enola Holmes Mystery

  by Nancy Springer

  Sherlock Holmes’ 14-year-old sister, Enola, makes her fifth appearance, as clever as her much older brother and still determined to be on her own after being abandoned by her mother and threatened with boarding school. But now that freedom is in jeopardy when her landlady is abducted, seemingly because she has carried a message from the “Bird.” The mystery itself, concerning smuggling during the Crimean War, won’t... (more)