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‘Death in the Crimea’ by William Bullock Webster, 18 January 1856. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain.

‘Crimean Quagmire’ by Gregory Carleton review

Donald Rayfield | Published in History Today Volume 74 Issue 10 October 2024

In listening to the war’s loudest voices, Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare by Gregory Carleton drowns out the dive

Captain Kidd: Privateer, Pirate and Agent of Empire?

Tom Wareham | Published in History Today Volume 63 Issue 1 January 2013

The trial of Captain William Kidd raised uncomfortable questions for the state about the pirate’s role in the consolidation of England’s early overseas empir