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by Edmund , Ollier

Cassell’s Illustrated History of the Russo-Turkish War Vols I & II

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Edition: 

  • Unspecified

Condition: 

  • Good+

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Vol. I.: From the Commencement of the War to the Fall of Plevna. Including an Historical Sketch of the Russian and Turkish Empires./ Vol. II.: From December, 1878, to the Ratification of Peace. Including a history of Cyprus, and of the Afghan War. A comprehensive, largely contemporary account of the war between Russia and the Turkish Empire, (which occupied much of South-Eastern Europe at the time), starting with the insurrection in Herzegovina of 1875 and finishing with the ratification of the peace treaty and settling of borders (or failing to settle, in the case of Greece) in 1879.