The Crimean peninsula ... for Ukrainians and Russians before the Russia-Ukraine war, especially Yalta, where the Soviet, U.S. and British victors of World War Two met in 1945 to discuss the ...

Sir Sam Mendes’ 1917 and Sir Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk are easily the best British war films of recent years. And now another joins their ranks from Iraq War vet Ray Mendoza and 28 Days ...

Of course the regiment is not originally from these parts and by the time it was formed by amalgamation in 1881 the 91st from Argyll and the 93rd from Sutherland had already distinguished themselves ...

Another war, fought between Russia and the West largely within modern Ukraine, holds lessons of its own: the Crimean War of 1853–56. The Gendarme and the Sick Man Like the Ukraine War, ...

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Russell was “embedded” with the British Army during the Crimean War of 1854–56. Tolstoy served in that war on the other side, as an artillery officer. Russell’s dispatches and Tolstoy’s short stories ...

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A rare sword that was taken into battle by the Leicestershire Regiment during the Crimean War is to feature in an auction this weekend. The "other ranks" sword would have been given to a non ...

This ambiguity can be found in the first photographs of the British army at war. These were taken by photographer Roger Fenton during the 1853-56 Crimean War, in which British, French and Ottoman ...

Ever since its annexation by Russia in 2014, the Crimean Peninsula ... of modern war and revealed how much of this tragedy was due to human agency. When the British government tried to cover ...

For although it was awarded to sailor James Gorman for heroism during the Crimean War, two imposters falsely ... During the Battle of Inkerman in 1854, the British lines were attacked at night.